On 6 Nov 2013, at 08:45, Angel Herráez <angel.herr...@uah.es> wrote:
> Dear all, > I fully agree with Henry's considerations. This might be a nontrivial > issue for the future of Jmol. > > On the other hand, I also hope that things may be simpler, as Nico is > presenting them. > I would not like to give up using the applet! > The pre-eminent reason (IMHO) for continuing to use the applet is its speed. We display many surfaces, often with millions of polygons. This can take 1-2 minutes to render using JSmol. I wonder if anyone has developed any standard benchmark tests for the two codes? That way, we can track if eg Javascript engines are catching up with the compiled Java. Volunteers please! I am old enough to remember when Xmol (which came before Jmol) was considered far far to slow to render proteins. It was Roger Sayle, working with David Blow (a protein crystallographer) who overturned the accepted wisdom that to display a protein you need an (eye-wateringly expensive) Evans and Sutherland hardware solution. Rasmol emerged out of that, and if it taught us anything, it was that well written code could in fact entirely replace that expensive E&S system. Roger’s tour-de-force was to show that EVEN spacefilled proteins could be rotated in real time using Rasmol. That was truly astonishing at the time (~ 1995). So perhaps JSmol could be tuned (along with the JavaScript engine) to do the same. But not I fancy for a year or two?
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