[geeks] squeaking away....

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:44:53AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ 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....

I think that under no platform does Morphic take advantage of hard ware 
acceleration.  For that matter, I don't think MVC does either, but it is 
simpler, and hence faster.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd