[Cuis-dev] Hello, new Cuis smalltalk user here!

[Joseph Turco]

Hey Juan,

I tried your tweaks and it did help! Its still a tad slow. The amount of memory left is 170M

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On Jul 20, 2021, 3:17 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:

> Hi Joseph,
>
> On 7/19/2021 8:40 AM, Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
>> Its the cog version, not stack. By lag btw I mean dragging windows are choppy. Typing is not as real time as it should me. Its the latest version on the opensmalltalk git
>
> Ok. The cog version from opensmalltalk is the fastest.
>
> One thing you can try is to evaluate
>
> Preferences slowMachine
>
> This disables some things that are nice to have, but it gives better response on a slow machine. After that, do
>
> self runningWorld color: Color veryLightGray; hideTaskbar
>
> to remove the expensive taskbar, and for a more tolerable background color. You might still prefer to enable syntax highlighting:
>
> Preferences enable: #syntaxHighlightingAsYouType
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> Additionally, this might further improve performance:
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> Preferences disable: #subPixelRenderColorFonts
>
> Besides, 512mb ram is less than ideal. Please check how much ram you have free when starting cuis. Perhaps we can help reduce it a bit if needed.
>
> I never used a RasPI zero, but I find Cuis usable on a RasPI3B, if the cog VM is used. I hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Juan Vuletich
> www.cuis-smalltalk.org
>
> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
>
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>
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> On Jul 19, 2021, 7:37 AM, Bruce O'Neel < bruce.oneel at pckswarms.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just out of interest the Cog interpreter rather than the stack one? The Cog one is a JIT and much faster.
>>>
>>> squeak -version
>>>
>>> will tell you this. Send it to me if it is unclear.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> bruce
>>>
>>> On 2021-07-19T13:32:20.000+02:00, Joseph Turco [<jturk90 at protonmail.com>](mailto:jturk90 at protonmail.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah see I think that's my problem. Its a RPI zero w. 512mb ram and a single core 1ghz processor. I guess it needs a RPI 3b+ and faster. Oh well I guess its smalltalk-80 for now.
>>>>
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