Benchmark:

A spec browser displaying a list and text container(s).

List

TEXT Container 1

TEXT Container 2 ...

Text is a 2k lines file (no FileStreams involved).

execution time	Pharo 1.4	Pharo 2.0
With a single text container	17 secs	2.5 secs
With two text containers	143 secs	5 secs

With three text containers

221 secs

4.8 secs

So, things are going to be much better with Pharo 2.0. But we need to move asap to pharo 2.0 if we want to make text display faster.

I've attached the code, just in case.

usman