Updates: Smart underscores & BouncingAtomsMorph performance

> Hi Folks,
>
> Yesterday and today I pushed new stuff to github. See the attach.
> Cuis
> can now display both underscores and left arrows in the same
> method!
>
> I also could not help it and worked on BouncingAtomsMorph
> performance.
> It should be close to Squeak now.
>

> On 16 Aug 2015 at 12:08, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Yesterday and today I pushed new stuff to github. See the attach.
>> Cuis
>> can now display both underscores and left arrows in the same
>> method!
>>
>> I also could not help it and worked on BouncingAtomsMorph
>> performance.
>> It should be close to Squeak now.
>>
> No, it's faster. Much faster than Squeak in a side-by-side comparison.
>
>   - Dan
>

> On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 12:08 -0300, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Yesterday and today I pushed new stuff to github. See the attach. Cuis
>> can now display both underscores and left arrows in the same method!
>>
>> I also could not help it and worked on BouncingAtomsMorph performance.
>> It should be close to Squeak now.
> It's definitely improved BouncingAtomsMorph (I'm seeing at least 13-17
> FPS now.. I say 'at least' because from time to time it jumps up to the
> low 20's).  But more importantly (to me, at least) at first glance it
> looks like these changes provide an across the board performance boost
> to my other Morphic code. (most of my stuff doesn't have FPS counters
> but in looking at Morphic CPU utilization in ProcessBrowser, it's almost
> always 5-10% lower now)
>

> On 8/16/2015 12:08 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Yesterday and today I pushed new stuff to github. See the attach. Cuis
>> can now display both underscores and left arrows in the same method!
>>
>> I also could not help it and worked on BouncingAtomsMorph performance.
>> It should be close to Squeak now.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>
> I'm a bit surprised nobody commented on the attach. I'm quite happy
> about not having to give up our traditional assignment symbol, and at
> the same time, handle and display correctly underscores in names. These
> are sometimes useful when dealing with external code and stuff. I won't
> deny it, I'm also a bit proud of the idea to make it possible. Looking
> at the screenshot, doesn't it make you think "how the hell did he do it?"
> ?

> On 8/16/2015 12:08 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Yesterday and today I pushed new stuff to github. See the attach. Cuis
> > can now display both underscores and left arrows in the same method!
> >
> > I also could not help it and worked on BouncingAtomsMorph performance.
> > It should be close to Squeak now.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Juan Vuletich
>
> I'm a bit surprised nobody commented on the attach. I'm quite happy
> about not having to give up our traditional assignment symbol, and at
> the same time, handle and display correctly underscores in names. These
> are sometimes useful when dealing with external code and stuff. I won't
> deny it, I'm also a bit proud of the idea to make it possible. Looking
> at the screenshot, doesn't it make you think "how the hell did he do it?" ?
>

>>
>> I'm a bit surprised nobody commented on the attach. I'm quite happy
>> about not having to give up our traditional assignment symbol, and at
>> the same time, handle and display correctly underscores in names. These
>> are sometimes useful when dealing with external code and stuff. I won't
>> deny it, I'm also a bit proud of the idea to make it possible. Looking
>> at the screenshot, doesn't it make you think "how the hell did he do it?"
>> ?
> Well, that's what *I* was wondering. So how did you do that???
>
> :-)
>
> Dave
>

> On 8/17/2015 6:34 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm a bit surprised nobody commented on the attach. I'm quite happy
>>> about not having to give up our traditional assignment symbol, and at
>>> the same time, handle and display correctly underscores in names. These
>>> are sometimes useful when dealing with external code and stuff. I won't
>>> deny it, I'm also a bit proud of the idea to make it possible. Looking
>>> at the screenshot, doesn't it make you think "how the hell did he do
>>> it?"
>>> ?
>> Well, that's what *I* was wondering. So how did you do that???
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> Well, the first idea was that it given that a StrikeFont can already
> swap glyphs (#useUnderscores, #useLeftArrow), then it is possible to
> build cheap derivative fonts that do that, and TextStyles for them.
> Then, Shout parses code and sets TextEmphasis like italics or colors for
> differenc code elements. I just made it set a TextEmphasis with
> underscores for identifiers.
>
> It is so simple that I find it surprising that nobody (including me)
> thought about this years ago!
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>