Hi all.

Within the last hour or so, the folks on Pharo Discord#Spec (notably @Stepharo, @Esteban Lorenzano, @Steven Costiou, @stephan and anyone else I left out) fixed most of the speed problem in the NewTools debugger in Pharo 9.�� Its stepping action when stepping into and returning from a method (when rendering a new code pane before selecting the next evaluable) is nearly as fast as stepping within one method.�� The remaining latency is tiny and much more tolerable compared to what it was.�� The latency is longest on larger methods that need more rendering time. ��The cause seems to be speed of rendering with the FreeType2 library or possibly a Morphic bug (but that may have been what was fixed to create the current speed up).

The P9 debugger is workable for me.�� I���m closer to a port.

The only serious remaining latency problems are the already described ones following key events (insert, delete, cursor moves) and mouse clicks.�� The #Spec folks say that this will be fixed when the event-machinery remaining in the VM is moved to the image.�� Can someone estimate when this will happen?�� I would like to beta-test and contribute.

Shaping