Speedier GemTools

I have written in the past about my attempt to increase the responsiveness of GemTools when used over the WAN, but there are still more roundtrips than I would like.

Ramon Leon has found a way to speed up the remote performance of GemTools on LInux:

Now GemTools will run fast enough that you could actually develop directly in Gemstone if you like. Not that I actually would, Pharo has much better tool support.

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GemTools 1.0-beta.8.3 for Pharo 1.1

Thanks to the hard work of Norbert Hartl, GemTools can now be loaded into Pharo 1.1.

If you’d like to build your own GemTools on top of Pharo 1.1, then download Pharo 1.1 image (core or dev) and follow the installation instructions here.

If you are using GemTools 1.0-beta.8.2 on Pharo 1.0 or Squeak 4.1, you can upgrade to 1.0-beta.8.3, but there should be no functional differences.

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