With a smaller image, it gets a lot faster (except the first time) total 149096 drwx------@ 12 stephan staff 408 24 jul 17:58 . drwx------+ 3243 stephan staff 110262 24 jul 17:48 .. -rw-r--r--@ 1 stephan staff 6148 24 jul 17:49 .DS_Store -rw-rw-r--@ 1 stephan staff 10802235 24 jul 17:58 Pharo-40037.changes -rw-rw-r--@ 1 stephan staff 27244188 26 jun 00:35 Pharo-40037.image -rw-rw-r--@ 1 stephan staff 5603025 24 jul 17:52 Pharo-minimal-40122.changes -rw-rw-r--@ 1 stephan staff 6109432 24 jul 11:44 Pharo-minimal-40122.image drwxr-xr-x@ 3 stephan staff 102 3 jul 00:33 Pharo.app -rw-r--r--@ 1 stephan staff 395 24 jul 17:57 PharoDebug.log -rw-r--r-- 1 stephan staff 26546528 29 apr 12:30 PharoV30.sources -rwxr-xr-x 1 stephan staff 201 24 jul 17:51 test.st -rwxr-xr-x 1 stephan staff 193 24 jul 17:57 test2.st
stephanontsimac:40122 stephan$ time ./test.st 1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000 real 0m1.005s user 0m0.149s sys 0m0.062s real 0m0.297s user 0m0.148s sys 0m0.051s real 0m0.281s user 0m0.145s sys 0m0.050s vs a 40037 image real 0m0.501s user 0m0.325s sys 0m0.070s real 0m0.475s user 0m0.328s sys 0m0.066s real 0m0.499s user 0m0.346s sys 0m0.073s