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[Pharo-project] FilePlugin rant
by Camillo Bruni March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

I recently started to hack around Monticello due to very low response times when having a huge package cache. Now interestingly the FilePlugin primitives for listing files are horrible! Example: ----------------------------------------------------------- MC often requests a list of all mzc's cached locally: (FileDirectory default / 'package-cache') entries In my case there are 4300 mczs in the shared package-cache timeToRun yields a nightmarish 2050ms for this, further investigation leads to the fact that most of the time is spent in the file primitive! Now thats some 2ms for a single directory entry! [Just as a side note, ruby1.8 does the same job in 10ms :D] ----------------------------------------------------------- primLookupEntryIn: fullPath index: index <primitive: 'primitiveDirectoryLookup' module: 'FilePlugin'> ----------------------------------------------------------- I think we should definitely add another primitive which directly lists the file under a certain path. Of course this will break compatibility with existing code, but I think the current approach does not scale... best cami

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Re: [Pharo-project] Small usability glitch
by Marcus Denker March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Sebastian Sastre wrote: > Hey guys, > > when opening a SystemBrowser and executing a "Find class..." command (with context menu or cmd-f with focus in the packages pane) there is a dialog listing the classes that matches whatever you type. > > So far so great. > > The problem is that time and again I use the arrows keys to select the one that I was looking for and press enter only to get a dialog closed in a no-op. > > Note that: > 1. to make that dialog work, the only way is to use the mouse to click on OK or double click the target class and > 2. the input even says: "Hit return to accept" > I think this is fixed in 1.4. The class find dialog is now usable just by keyboard... (Camillo fixed that). Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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[Pharo-project] Just a thought... <Versions> with Monticello/Metacello load info
by Ben Coman March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

Just a small idea that popped up... In SystemBrowser when clicking <Versions>, in addition to showing the code author and timestamp, a nice enhancement might be to also show which mcz or ConfigurationOf the change was related to, as well as the date loaded into the current image. cheers, Ben

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[Pharo-project] Troll Banned.
by Marcus Denker March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

Hello, The Pharo Board decided to ban the Troll. Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de

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Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Spoon presentation 2012-02-24
by Chris Muller March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

You showed us this earlier in the week -- and the feedback then was, "voice-over, please." When the music started I hoped perhaps you were going to sing it to us. :) It's nice demo, but so far I've only seen the components that are IN Spoon -- I am interested in seeing an OUTPUT of Spoon. Anything to take me to the next-level of understanding and confidence about it.. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Craig Latta <craig(a)netjam.org> wrote: > > Hi-- > > Â Â This is a fly-through of my next presentation about Spoon[1]. I > hope to present it at the next Pharo conference, 24-25 May 2012 in > Lille, France. > > Â Â http://tinyurl.com/8y2x3rp (wordpress.com) > > > Â Â thanks for any feedback! > > -C > > [1] http://netjam.org/spoon > > -- > Craig Latta > www.netjam.org/resume > +31 6 2757 7177 > + 1 415 287 3547 > >

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Re: [Pharo-project] leaking semaphores
by Henrik Johansen March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

On Mar 1, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: > Note to tracker: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5423 Cheers, Henry

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[Pharo-project] Is athens configuration loading?
by StÃ©phane Ducasse March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

Can we play with it :)? Stef

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March 1, 2012

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[Pharo-project] reddit link for a squeak how-to please vote
by Lawson English March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/qcjo9/meta_howto_figuring_out_… Squeak is often used as a prototyping system for graduate students and professors, who are often notoriously bad at providing documentation. This video shows one of an infinite number of possible ways of using the Squeak IDE to figure something out: specifically, given a node in a graph built from the Connectors package, how does one figure out what that node is connected to? Please vote, thanks. L.

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[Pharo-project] FFI on 1.3: compile fields
by Schwab,Wilhelm K March 1, 2012

March 1, 2012

Does 1.3 by default not create field accessors? Why is that? I thought nothing was happening. Bill

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