On Jul 10, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Stef, > > One of my greatest concerns about/for the Squeak community is an > overall tone of "*YOU* can't do that because *I* think its's ugly" - > or in this case, too slow. So, far be it from me to tell you that > you cannot have even a super slow browser that does something you > need. That's all the more true when you are doing such great things > for Smalltalk and Pharo in particular. I am certainly not > suggesting that we remove the browser that helps you make things > better. > > However, I suggest that we consider carefully what we choose as the > default tools, or at least give options to those who are finding the > current defaults to be slow. Even if we continue with the OB as the > default, we could at least have a script somewhere with a comment > along the lines of "for a faster (at the expense of features) IDE, > evaluate the following:".
Yes we are concious about that. > It appears that we indeed have the alternate tools lurking in the > image, so a little advertising might go a long way until we can fix > the bottlenecks or Elliot makes a VM that overpowers them. I > *think* I am asking only that we advertise the options and perhaps > delay cleaning certain parts of the system until the high end tools > get a speed boost. Alternately, we could take up a recent > suggestion to temporarily disable specific features that are > hobbling performance - either way that preserves what you need is > fine by me. Is that reasonable? Yes I agree. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
