Ok ok ok. What I would to is to:

- Start from PharoCore, of course. Not dev. Take a core and load what you need. To script such loads, you can use Gofer. If you want to use Metacello, you can take your conf and load it. It will bootstrap metacello, and then, once you have installed it, with ConfigurationOfMetacello >> unload� you con can remove Metacello from the system.
- Do some cleaning to the image. Check the stuff done in ScriptLoader >> cleanUpForProduction. There are a lot of interesting things there
- Use standard fonts and as they said, without antialaising
- For the VM you can also compile a minimal VM. I did that with MacOS where I compiled only the 4 or 5 plugins that were needed. I am not sure if you win something, thus.
- Check and try this email: http://forum.world.st/Are-random-refactorings-welcome-td2283957.html#a2283957
- Of course, try Cog.
- I would use the SystemBrowser that comes with the Core. Not OB neither O2.
- Enable fastDragWindowForMorphic
- Don't use annotation panes. CHeck also issues 2403
- Use Pharo 1.1 that is much faster than 1.0

That's all that came to my mind. Not sure what could help. Good luck and let us know.

Cheers

Mariano
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