On 1/3/07, Aleksandr Skobelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/2/07, Aleksandr Skobelev <al_skobelev at mail.ru> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering, is there any reason for Squeak to be so deadly
> slow on
> > iBook with 1.33 GHz Power PC CPU and 1 GB RAM and load it so
> much? Is
> > it a feature of the PPC implmentation or Squeak itself? Is there any
> > choice that in near future Squeak performace on PPC will improve?
>
> Our definitions of "deadly slow" may be different. I run Squeak on an
> old iBook...
>
> Machine Name: iBook G4
> Machine Model: PowerBook6,5
> CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.1)
> Number Of CPUs: 1
> CPU Speed: 1.33 GHz
> L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
> Memory: 768 MB
> Bus Speed: 133 MHz
>
> ...with less memory than you have and find it more than fast enough.
> What are you doing with Squeak?
>
> Steve
Well we have almost identical iBooks (I have 256 MB more and an
updated CPU):
Machine Name: iBook G4
Machine Model: PowerBook6,7
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.33 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
But I can not say it is more than fast enough. It might be that I was
a bit incorrect in my previous message, and I needed to title it
"Squeak CPU speed". But the sad story that I do almost nothing with
it, I'm just trying to use it figure out what it is. And I see that
GUI responsiveness is too low and the such basic operations as
changing a window size or moving it (with fastDragWindowForMorphic
disaibled) load CPU upto 100%. And after I've installed DejaVu fonts,
I need to wait upto 4 seconds everytime I change size of the
SqueakMap Package Loader window. Switching from the Class libraries
category to Development tools takes about 8 seconds.
So...how does a vanilla image perform? And which image version are
you using? I have fastDrag enabled (disabling is too slow for me too)
and I haven't installed those fonts.
Steve
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