Frequently Asked Questions

My benchmark isn’t running fast! Strongtalk is terrible!

You are almost certainly trying to run an entire micro-benchmark in a “do it”, in which case you will probably get slow, interpreted performance. You need to look at the Benchmarking Guidelines to learn how to do benchmarking the right way. If your program is crashing, read the troubleshooting page in the release.

Where is the console window? Why do I need one?

If you started Strongtalk from a command line, the command line window is the console. If you start it from Windows, a command line window will be opened automatically as the console. The console is currently used for the command line debugger and for VM message output.