Hi Stef, 2009/7/14 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:
Hi estaban [SNIP]
As a side note, I downloaded the latest Cuis image from http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html , and its amazingly fast.
As a side note. We do not consider ourselves in competition with Cuis. We integrated more than 1500 bug fixes and improvements (pragmas, closure compiler, traits....) and even more if we consider the version used in Cuis.
I know you're not competition, just put the example as a comparison of how fast a minimum image can run on actual hardware. I know Pharo is a superior alternative, with not only speed in mind. And I like its objective.
We support truetype fonts and we are cleaning the system, when the cruft will be removed we will probably focus on making it faster.
I understand, it just surprised me that an alpha release was such slow, as somebody said below its simple dissuasive to "give Pharo a try now it's alpha" and find that.
We are rewriting Package info from scratch. Now it takes time but feel free to join.
I hope to contribute with something, even if it's just a bug report/fix. Regards, -- Esteban.