Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the standard development process using VA Smalltalk and ENVY. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
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There's one more aspect of the VA Smalltalk benchmark tool to look at. If you want to start at the beginning of this tutorial section, get started here - and then have a look at the second and third installments.
Following on from last time, take a look at the pulldown menu button at the top left of the tool - it turns out that a second set of pre-built benchmarks are available there:.
You can run these the same way as we have in the earlier screencasts, and adding new tests to this menu option works as it did for the initial selection
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Over the last week or two, I've noticed that my Mac seemed to be active a lot more often than I thought it should be - and when it was, there was always a "Chrome Worker" eating the CPU. It had gotten to the point where it was impacting the performance of everything, including games. I finally started disabling extensions (I have very few) last night, and sure enough - it was "AdBlock Plus". I turned that off, and I must have gained 10 fps in "Dishonored" (which I play in a Windows VM) immediately.
Chrome also got faster - pages that had been hanging, or taking forever to load, started loading right away (even on crappy hotel wifi).
I'm leaving that extension off - whatever it was doing (and I wasn't seeing fewer ads, that's for sure), it wasn't good.
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Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the "recently visited" support in Pharo. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
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Welcome to episode 101 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Andres Valloud talking about memory management in VisualWorks. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.
To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.
If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!
If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!
Welcome to episode 101 of Independent Misinterpretations - a Smalltalk and dynamic language oriented podcast with James Robertson and David Buck.
This week we have another recording from the STIC 2012 conference - Andres Valloud talking about memory management in VisualWorks. If you would rather watch the video, head on over to the STIC website.
You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (or any other podcatching software) using this feed directly or in iTunes with this one.
To listen now, you can either download the mp3 edition, or the AAC edition. The AAC edition comes with chapter markers. You can subscribe to either edition of the podcast directly in iTunes; just search for Smalltalk and look in the Podcast results. You can subscribe to the mp3 edition directly using this feed, or the AAC edition using this feed using any podcatching software. You can also download the podcast in ogg format.
If you like the music we use, please visit Josh Woodward's site. We use the song Troublemaker for our intro/outro music. I'm sure he'd appreciate your support!
If you have feedback, send it to jarober@gmail.com - or visit us on Facebook - you can subscribe in iTunes using this iTunes enabled feed.. If you enjoy the podcast, pass the word - we would love to have more people hear about Smalltalk!
A teaser image for what may be upcoming downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was posted to Bethesda's Twitter account this afternoon, along with the announcement of a full trailer coming Monday, Nov. 5.
I wonder if they'll time it for the one year anniversary of the game's release?
Today's Smalltalk 4 You goes into more depth on the VA Smalltalk benchmarking tool. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
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Today we'll look at the options in the VA Smalltalk benchmarking tool. If you want to start at the beginning of this tutorial section, get started here - and then have a look at the second installment.
Following on from last time, create a small benchmark test, make sure to save it. Now pull down the "View" menu. Notice the different options? Select them one at a time, try running the test, and see what results you get in the view.
Notice which part of the UI changes. Now pull down the "Time" menu - again, try a few of those:
Finally, run the tests with a few of the combinations and look at the results:
Finally, have a look at the "Results" menu - note that you can save and load benchmarks for later review and comparison.
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Today's Smalltalk 4 You takes an overview of the benchmarking tools in VA Smalltalk. If you don't know what to load, get started here. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
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Today we'll run the benchmarking tools in VA Smalltalk and see what they do. If you don't know what to load, get started here.
Following on from last time, create a small benchmark test, and then click the "run" button in the tool:
You should see something like what's above. There are a number of view/benchmark options to explore - we'll get to those next time
Need more help? There's a screencast for other topics like this which you may want to watch. Questions? Try the "Chat with James" Google gadget over in the sidebar.