[Cuis] Cuis on Raspberry Pi

[Juan Vuletich]

On 12/19/2013 1:39 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> Well, we removed that. What that is, is when you move or resize a 
> window, in Squeak (when it's enabled, probably still default) will 
> show you only the outline of the window, a wireframe so to speak, 
> which doesn't bother rendering the window until you drop it somewhere.
>
> Cuis is fast enough that we really don't need that stuff anymore on 
> most hardware. The Pi presents some new challenges. Personally I think 
> we can nail down what's slowing us and just fix it, but it may 
> actually be worth putting that behavior back in for folks running on 
> pocket calculators. (Mind you, I'm making a TRON reference here and 
> not insulting the Pi, which I'm really quite a fan of.)
>
> Juan can lambast me to the extent that I've explained this situation 
> incorrectly. IIRC correctly (and I don't trust that I do) we dropped 
> this behavior in either Cuis 3.0 or 4.0.

Agreed.

> An industrious programmer might bring it back in as an external package.
>
> I think it's fairly certain that we'd like to be the ideal Smalltalk 
> to run on small/low-end devices like the Pi, so I do think this merits 
> discussion.
>

Please don't. The main reason I removed it was that the implementation 
was hacky and needed ugly code at several places. Let me work on a new, 
cleaner implementation.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich