>>
>
> You could try:
>
> | floats |
> floats := (1 to: 200000) collect: #asFloat.
> [ FloatPrintPolicy
> � �value: InexactFloatPrintPolicy new
> � �during: [
> � � � �String new: 1500000 streamContents: [ :stream |
> � � � � � �floats do: [ :each | each printOn: stream ] ] ] ] timeToRun
>
> => 796 ms
>
> I haven't looked at the Postgresql driver in detail, but I would guess that PostgresV2 reads from a String somewhere, which is slow unless care is taken, while psycopg probably does a binary read. That last thing can be done in Pharo as well, but not if the driver is text based somehow.
>
> You are right: Pharo should definitively be in the same range as other dynamically typed languages. But dynamic languages are dangerous: user become lazy / ignorant about performance.
>
> Thanks for pushing this.

+1
we need more people to profile and look at these aspects.
I can tell you that we are all working like crazy to improve the system and I hope that one of these days we will have
real regression tests. But well you know it takes a lot of time.

Stef