> Hello, I'm not so experienced ST user and I know your post is meant for the
> developers more than other users, but I would like to join the discussion
> and maybe help anyway :)
>
> (1) It is true that Nautilus (class browser) needs a lot of time to display
> greater amounts of classes. For example displaying whole Roassal2 package
> with 319 classes for first time takes 12 seconds on my PC and I always curse
> myself for even clicking on it, so displaying all classes in Pharo (which is
> almost 10 thousand in basic image) takes a lot of time, but honestly, I have
> never needed to display all classes in whole Pharo.

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> (2) Class is "abstract" and should not have any instances. allInstances
> method returns only instances of receiver, but not of subclasses of
> receiver. Getting instances of Metaclass is something quite different - it
> returns all "classes of classes". Maybe take a look at this:
> http://pharo.gforge.inria.fr/PBE1/Metaclasses/figures/TranslucentMetaclassClassClass.png
> Method allSubclasses gives you everything recursively connected by empty
> arrows (subclasses) and allInstances gives you everything connected by
> double filled arrows (instances).
>
> Jan
>
>
> igblan wrote
>> I am an experienced SMalltalk user. Two things surprised me when I first
>> tried Pharo.
>>
>> (1) Selecting ProtoObject and then clicking Heirarchy takes about 10
>> seconds to display the full heirarchy. This seems awfully slow.
>>
>> (2) Inspecting 'Class allInstances' gives an empty array. This doesn't
>> seem quite right! 'Metaclass allInstances' gives the expected result.
>>
>> Cheers, Paul
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