Bart, On 16 Oct 2010, at 13:48, Bart Veenstra wrote:
> Hi list, > > I have been working with Pharo for almost a month now, and I suspect > that the performance is degrading fast. UI tasks takes several seconds > to react to my keyboard. > > At work we use VAST and I have experience with VW as well and those > smalltaks react to my keyboard and mouse actions instantly. But Pharo > works very sluggish. > > My image is about 130MB because I have loaded all dutch postcode in > memory, but that should not affect the performance of general > operations like typing with the keyboard. I am not a fast typer, but > sometimes it takes seconds to show my keyboard input. I can't use the > down key to select the right method from suggestions, because it seems > to lockup completely. > > Are there ways to speedup Pharo? I would love to use cogVM but I > haven't got gemtools working on it... > > Will upgrading to 1.1.1 fix these issues? > > Is my OS (Windows 7-64bit) causing these issues? > > Regards, > > Bart I am just guessing here, but I would suspect the slowdown to be related to completion/syntax coloring issues. You could try a pharo core image or one of lukas's builds (take development or seaside from http://hudson.lukas-renggli.ch/). In a large/old image, there could be lots of issues, of course. HTH, Sven _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
