[geeks] squeaking away....

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 09:28:41 (+0200), William S. wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] grr AT
>
> I just installed the squeak port on my
> OpenBSD P166MMX. I don't have it totally
> figured out but I do notice it runs kinda
> slow within the window it opens on
> my desktop. I know there are ways to tune
> its performance but I think my cpu may be
> to slow to handle it effectively.
> It has some fun stuff in it though. I have
> not de-installed it yet.

A P-166MMZ is perhaps a bit slow for X11 & Squeak on the same machine.
If you happen to have a fast network connection to some other X11
display then you should get somewhat better performance.

(I find it a bit slow on my P-II 300MHz sometimes, at least in the
morphic worlds -- good old MVC is quite fast though)

I tried it on a 700MHz P-III some time ago and was less than thrilled by
the not-very-stunning speed up.  I think part of the problem is the lack
of L2 cache on the P-III, but also no doubt part of the problem was the
low-end S3 on-board VGA....

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