On 5/3/2011 4:40 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:

What approach do you suggest should I take?

I have no idea. You could try and break down the various activities and benchmark them separately I suppose. You could look at the profiles you're already generating in higher resolution to see where the time is going. You could also try and extract the SystemProfiler from OpenQwaq, which will run on Cog, and is better than MessageTally. Andreas wrote it to get around some of MessageTally's limitations. It should hopefully show primitives quite accurately.

Here is where the OpenQwaq GPL licensing gets tricky. I am not bashing the GPL decision, I have already written in defense of it. But it does make extracting code like this a little more challenging.

Does the author and/or Teleplace wish to provide an MIT license on the extracted code? Otherwise it is hard or impossible (???) to use in Pharo or Squeak.

I am hopeful that Teleplace will on an issue by issue basis allow such extraction and re-licensing with appropriate credits. It would definitely should good faith and citizenship in the broader Smalltalk community.

Jimmie