I will preface this by saying that I have had a fairly intense week with Pharo. I am closing in on a solution to a real problem. I greatly miss Dolphin's Browse-it command, and its F12 and shift-F12 (definitions/references to a typed selector); the message search has its points, but it takes some extra steps to use in comparison to the Dolphin features.

Back to the topic at hand; let's see if I am following. Start with a core image, run a script that installs what looks like a Pharo web image, makes a few changes to settings in favor of speed, and you get something that you find faster than Pharo?? Did you make the same speed selections in Pharo? If so, one wonders what happened between core and Pharo-dev/web that Lukas did not do to the core image.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

Hi

David shaffer reported to me in fuzzy way that pharo is slow on linux.
Dear linux users can you report if you experienced the same and
on which
machine
distributions
vm
image

please compare the core and the dev (with browser usage)

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Hi,

machine: core duo 2.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM (White Macbook, 2007)
distribution: Archlinux
vm: exupery pharo-vm-0.15.1b-linux.zip
images: pharo0.1-10373dev09.07.2 and latest Pharo-Core

Pharo-Core: (System Browser)
- startup time: instantaneous
- navigate randomly in browser: 3% - 8% CPU usage
- find class OrderedCollection: ~10% CPU
- browse senders of add: time to open 1s, 21% CPU

Pharo-Dev: (Package Browser)
- statup time: 3s (cold start 5s)
- navigate randomly in browser: 9% - 15% CPU usage
- find class OrderedCollection: ~13% CPU
- browse senders of add: time to open 19s, 48% CPU

Now I'm using Pharo-Core with Luka's scripts (http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/ImageBuildScripts) as it's far more pleasant to use for me.

Laurent