[Pharo-users] Pharo performance

[Chris]

I've been getting a little concerned with certain aspects of performance 
recently. Just a couple of examples off the top of my head were trying 
to do a printString on 200000 floats which takes over 3 seconds. If I do 
the same in Python it is only 0.25 seconds. Similarly reading 65000 
points from a database with the PostgresV2 driver was about 800m/s and 
only 40 with psycopg. I'd have to try it again but am pretty sure going 
native was faster than OpenDBX as well. I appreciate Pharo is never 
going to be able to compete with the static-typed heavyweight languages 
but would hope we can get performance at least comparable to other 
dynamic languages :) Is it just that some method implementations are in 
need of some TLC; more things moved on top of C libraries and primitives 
and so forth rather than anything with the VM itself?

Cheers
Chris