hi stefan, maybe you can try yo profile all threads and see where it actually spends all the time?
WorldMenu / System / Start profiling all Processes best cami On 2012-03-18, at 12:57, Stefan Marr wrote: > Hi: > > When trying to debug a Pharo image with a VM that is heavily instrumented > with assertions and runs without any compiler optimizations turned on, it is > crawlingly slow. > (The good old MVC based image is blazingly fast in comparison) > > Are there any tricks to reduce/disable all the possibly fancy things like > transparency, code completion, syntax highlighting easily? > > I already disable the code completion, and syntax highlighting. > I also switched off things like animations, rounded corners, and switched to > the Standard Squeak theme. > > Still, non of these cosmetic changes gave me the noticeable performance gain > I had hoped for. > > Is there anything else I could try to reduce the amount of work the image is > doing? > It blinks the cursor in a text field in the speed I would expect. > But as soon as I start typing, or try to interact with a window, it feels > like I can go for a walk before the image is done. > > Thanks > Stefan > > > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 2974 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > >
