On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 08:53 -0700, John M McIntosh wrote:
> No, the intent is preserve the images as they are shipped see
> 
> http://www.mobilewikiserver.com/ST80Docs.html
> &
John, while looking at the above link I instantly developed
a massive need for an iphone. That is sooo good. Thanks!!

Norbert

> http://www.mobilewikiserver.com/SqueakDocs.html
> 
> However if you have a script that removals all the *extra* things that  
> people could run for server images that would be helpful at least to me,
> I realize that most folks don't care about 8MB, but on tiny devices  
> that 8MB is golden...
> 
> 
> On 5-May-09, at 1:28 AM, stéphane ducasse wrote:
> 
> > John
> >
> > for your images did you remove tests and other unnecessary stuff?
> > The 10300 is 12.7mb without removing all kind of crap like the  
> > scriptLoader and the tests.
> > I hope that we will be able to slowly get more and more modular:  
> > once project/bookmorph are gone.
> > I imagine (did not read carefully the details of we got about the  
> > chase of the unclosed handles)
> > that the startup behavior could be also improved.
> >
> > Stef
> >
> > On May 5, 2009, at 10:17 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:
> >
> >> Tsk, well I was off to bed, but thought I should make some notes.
> >>
> >> Last night I push out two electronic books showing smalltalk-80  
> >> based source code to Apple for iPhone review.
> >> One was based on the latest pharo of end of april 09 with closures  
> >> the other based on the sq3.10.2-719web09.04.1.zip no closures.
> >> The two e-books apps are identical except for the code base.
> >>
> >> I dropped the wikiserver stuff into both, happy since the changes  
> >> required were non-existent for pharo and one or two for sq3.10.2
> >>
> >> (a) The sq3.10.2 version was missing some of the  extra add-on Pier  
> >> stuff, and has the LGPL Swazoo which makes some folks run for the  
> >> fire exit.
> >>
> >> (b) The pharo image is 20.2 mb, the sq3.10.2 is 25.2 mb, so 5MB  
> >> bigger.
> >>
> >> (c) The pharo image needed about 35mb of ram to be happy, the sq  
> >> 3.10.2 about 40mb
> >> (c2) The pharo image ramps to the welcome screen using 19.23 mb  
> >> ram, 97.12mb virtual
> >> (c3) The sq 3.10.2 image ramps using 19.05mb and 102.12 virtual.
> >> This makes sense because I avoid a full gc and doing allInstances,  
> >> so the code base is really startup logic and seaside.
> >> (I had to fix the sq 3.10.2 image because of ignored bug using  
> >> allInstances I reported years back, never fixed, but fixed in pharo  
> >> last fall).
> >>
> >> (d) The pharo image needs 2.6 to 6.6% cpu on the iphone at idle,  
> >> the sq 3.10.2 needs 8 to 18%
> >> (to be fair here I could bring some fixes into the 3.10.2 image to  
> >> reduce the cpu time, but really those fixes should have gone in  
> >> years ago...)
> >>
> >> (e) The sq 3.10.2 book feels sluggish. the pharo less so. So the sq  
> >> 3.10.2 excessive CPU usage is the usability killer here.
> >>
> >> To be fair WikiServer is happy with 20MB of ram with a 10.5MB image  
> >> size, and runs with a 0 to 0.9% cpu usage at idle, starup ram of  
> >> 11.69, virtual memory of 90.34
> >> Lots of hours to get there..
> >>
> >> PS I see the etoys image is only 16.4 MB, well that doesn't include  
> >> seaside etc, but if you need that you should start with etoys as  
> >> the base and add pier and seaside, less bloated I'd guess, and  
> >> supported for that etoy feature set you need?
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