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

[Nicola Mingotti]

The tweaks improved the situation on the BBB rev. C.
I will add to the youtube video  the procedure as a comment.

Still, i will upgrade the BBB to a larger machine, probaby BB AI, this 
is the lesser evil to me.

bye
Nicola




On 7/20/21 9:55 PM, Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev wrote:
> 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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> Sent from ProtonMail mobile
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Jul 20, 2021, 3:17 PM, Juan Vuletich < juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
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>     Hi Joseph,
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>     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
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>     Ok. The cog version from opensmalltalk is the fastest.
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>     One thing you can try is to evaluate
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>              Preferences slowMachine
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>     This disables some things that are nice to have, but it gives
>     better response on a slow machine. After that, do
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>             self runningWorld color: Color veryLightGray; hideTaskbar
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>     to remove the expensive taskbar, and for a more tolerable
>     background color. You might still prefer to enable syntax
>     highlighting:
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>             Preferences enable: #syntaxHighlightingAsYouType
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>     Additionally, this might further improve performance:
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>             Preferences disable: #subPixelRenderColorFonts
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>     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.
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>     Cheers,
>
>     --
>     Juan Vuletich
>     www.cuis-smalltalk.org
>     https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
>     https://github.com/jvuletich
>     https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3
>     @JuanVuletich
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>>     Sent from ProtonMail mobile
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>>
>>     -------- Original Message --------
>>     On Jul 19, 2021, 7:37 AM, Bruce O'Neel <
>>     bruce.oneel at pckswarms.ch> wrote:
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>>         Hi,
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>>         Just out of interest the Cog interpreter rather than the
>>         stack one?  The Cog one is a JIT and much faster.
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>>         squeak -version
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>>         will tell you this.  Send it to me if it is unclear.
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>>         cheers
>>
>>         bruce
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>>         On 2021-07-19T13:32:20.000+02:00, Joseph Turco
>>         <jturk90 at protonmail.com> wrote:
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>>             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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>>             Sent from ProtonMail mobile
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