Bart, On 16 Oct 2010, at 13:48, Bart Veenstra wrote:
Hi list,
I have been working with Pharo for almost a month now, and I suspect that the performance is degrading fast. UI tasks takes several seconds to react to my keyboard.
At work we use VAST and I have experience with VW as well and those smalltaks react to my keyboard and mouse actions instantly. But Pharo works very sluggish.
My image is about 130MB because I have loaded all dutch postcode in memory, but that should not affect the performance of general operations like typing with the keyboard. I am not a fast typer, but sometimes it takes seconds to show my keyboard input. I can't use the down key to select the right method from suggestions, because it seems to lockup completely.
Are there ways to speedup Pharo? I would love to use cogVM but I haven't got gemtools working on it...
Will upgrading to 1.1.1 fix these issues?
Is my OS (Windows 7-64bit) causing these issues?
Regards,
Bart
I am just guessing here, but I would suspect the slowdown to be related to completion/syntax coloring issues. You could try a pharo core image or one of lukas's builds (take development or seaside from http://hudson.lukas-renggli.ch/). In a large/old image, there could be lots of issues, of course. HTH, Sven