On 4-Jul-09, at 12:08 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
Adrian,
I share Stef's enthusiasm for your suggested process. Thanks for taking my prods about speed in the constructive spirit in which they are intended.
One concern though: is the benchmark of opening and closing browsers able to give a realistic comparison of performance? Time to open a debugger is probably worth noting, but the things that concern me most with the browsers are poor response to keyboard input, time delays selecting a new class or method, and (most notably) time required to recompile a class; changing the category can take several seconds in my experience.
I should note that in testing with a limited memory VM say 40MB it seemed that every other time I opened a browser window it would toss a memory failure walkback. So I'd suggest althought time is important, has any one looked at how much memory is required to do the process? This allocation seemed temporary btw. -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ========================================================================