In my experience the truetype fonts and the mac skin are a major slowdown. If I disable both things I get a much faster image. Now I do like nice fonts, so I just live with that speed penalty ...
Lukas On Thursday, November 26, 2009, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> wrote: > Stef, > > I have a "slow" machine that stands ready to help with numbers any time; it > is semi-retired now, running Ubuntu 9.04. It might be a good ideas to > dual-boot it, but I find it challenging to work up the motivation to assault > it with a Windows CD, and I have a similar era machine running win2k. > > My sense is that Pharo is slower than Squeak, and I am suspicious that the > Linux vm is not as efficient as it could be. I forget wheher I saw this only > on Linux, but somewhere I reported a long-sourced method that I saw draw in > monochrome and AGAIN in color. Nothing against Shout (as the self-apppointed > comment pedant, I **really** appreciate syntax highlighting), there might be > some room for efficiency by skipping the monochrom pass. > > Resizing on Linux turns the main window black. It might make more sense to > invalidate and draw once after the sizing is complete?? > > I have long heard people claim that Linux is faster than Windows, but I was > not convinced. Having recently purchased a new machine and watched it labor > under the weight of Vista long enough to see for myself what all the stench > was about, I think I get it. Current Linux distributions with the customary > graphical largese are not happy on 7+ year old machines that handily run > Win2k. However, a new box that just barely gets by under Windows will be > relatively quick running Linux. > > I forget who said it: "software is getting slow faster than hardware is > getting fast." > > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stéphane > Ducasse > Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:02 PM > To: neil butterworth > Cc: Pharo Development > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] about Pharo > > Thanks for your reply :) > >>> what you report is strange. >>> Can you let us know: >> >>> - vm >> >> The Pharo VM is the current (as of a couple of days ago) download from >> the Pharo Homepage - Squeak 3.11.4 (beta). >> >>> - OS >> >> Win2K SP4 >> >>> - image version >> >> Once again, a very recent download - >> pharo1.0-10493-rc1dev09.11.2.image >> >>> - your display depth >> >> True Color 24 bit > > I have > Display depth -> 32 > > then 24 looks strange to me. > > depth: bitsPerPixel > (bitsPerPixel > 32 or: > [(bitsPerPixel bitAnd: bitsPerPixel-1) ~= 0]) > ifTrue: [self halt: 'bitsPerPixel must be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or > 32']. > depth := bitsPerPixel > > Can you type > Display depth > > and Display depth: 32 to see if this change something? > >>> Because people are using pharo on production and we got an increase >>> of 15% of Morphic in pharo 1.1 so I have some doubts. >> >> It is very definitely much slower than Squeak on my system. This is an >> old laptop 900MHz P3, but it has no problems at all running Squeak. > > We should keep an old machine around to test it. > this is strange. > Because the Ob2Browser is slow because it displays package and getting > package information is slow. > Which browser are you using > Can you give a try to change it and use the system browser (to change click > on the right icon on the window ... Choose new default menu) > > Can you change the theme? > using the preference pane? > > > Thanks > > Stef > >> >> Neil Butterworth > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
