[Etoys] etoys performance problems

[Andreas Raab]

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> It's compressed. When you load a form via Form>>fromFileNamed: the
>> project's resource manager will remember the original bits (the jpeg
>> file). Only if the reference gets lost (the file deleted, the image
>> moved) it will use the uncompressed bits.
> 
> I'm almost sure (though not 100%) that this code is not active anymore, 
> forms are nowadays alway stored as plain objects. It's easy to test 
> though - make a project, load a jpeg, save the project, unzip it - there 
> would have to be a jpeg in the zip.

Oops. Shows how up to date I am on this code base ;-)

>> I would not recommend going down this path if you're new to Squeak and
>> don't know what you are buying into. The .pr files work because half a
>> dozen people spent a couple of years to make all of this stuff work.
>> You'd be pretty much on your own recreating this effort so unless you
>> have sufficient resources just try to deal with the inefficiencies and
>> leave the architecture alone.
> 
> Actually, Yoshiki's new s-expression based project format does pretty 
> much exactly that.

Yes, but I would still not recommend anyone start such a project until 
they really understand what they're getting themselves into ;-)

Cheers,
   - Andreas