[vwnc] decreased animation performance after installing Mac Snow

> Hi,
>
> In the last few days, I was working on some computer game in vw76nc
> that renders a simple animation.
>
> Yesterday I decided to upgrade the OS of my Mac to Snow. After an hour
> the machine was up and running again and I resumed my graphics work.
> Then I noticed that the performance had dropped. Huh? how can this happen.
> As a test I started a clean image and ran the Xonix game (loaded from
> the Toys section in the Parcel Manager). It wasn't that smooth
> anymore.
>
> Is anybody else experiencing this?
>
> It is hard to tell what part of the execution is taken more time than
> it used to. Maybe some benchmarking will help.
>
>  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
> Behalf Of Michael Lucas-Smith
> Sent: 10 September 2009 17:37
> To: Ernest Micklei
> Cc: Visualworks Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [vwnc] decreased animation performance after installing
> Mac Snow
>
> This is with VW7.6 or 7.7?
>
> Michael
>
> Ernest Micklei wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the last few days, I was working on some computer game in vw76nc
> > that renders a simple animation.
> >
> > Yesterday I decided to upgrade the OS of my Mac to Snow. After an
> hour
> > the machine was up and running again and I resumed my graphics work.
> > Then I noticed that the performance had dropped. Huh? how can this
> happen.
> > As a test I started a clean image and ran the Xonix game (loaded

> First line says vw76nc
>
>  
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
>> Behalf Of Michael Lucas-Smith
>> Sent: 10 September 2009 17:37
>> To: Ernest Micklei
>> Cc: Visualworks Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [vwnc] decreased animation performance after installing
>> Mac Snow
>>
>> This is with VW7.6 or 7.7?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Ernest Micklei wrote:
>>    
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In the last few days, I was working on some computer game in vw76nc
>>> that renders a simple animation.
>>>
>>> Yesterday I decided to upgrade the OS of my Mac to Snow. After an
>>>      
>> hour
>>    
>>> the machine was up and running again and I resumed my graphics work.
>>> Then I noticed that the performance had dropped. Huh? how can this
>>>      
>> happen.
>>    
>>> As a test I started a clean image and ran the Xonix game (loaded
>>>      
> from
>  
>>> the Toys section in the Parcel Manager). It wasn't that smooth
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> Is anybody else experiencing this?
>>>
>>> It is hard to tell what part of the execution is taken more time
>>>      
> than
>  
>>> it used to. Maybe some benchmarking will help.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
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