Here is a link to that tool: http://jist.ece.cornell.edu/
I am not a Java advocate, but I just wanted to say that it is possible to implement an application in Java that can perform better than similar applications in other programming languages. I believe that proficiency in a language and familiarity with the programming environment makes a big difference in what you can do in performance.
I agree with the comment on having a cross platform toolkit, and java may not be the right language for the job, but it *would* provide a cross platform solution. One problem I see with java, is you cannot guarantee the performance of the JVM across multiple platforms, which might be the bigger problem here. Additionally, the porting effort would be enormous. I am a big advocate of profiling the application, finding sections of code that are performance problems, and find better solutions to only this part of the code.
I guess my main point here is that Java is not as bad as the earlier posts have suggested. Like anything else, tt takes a certain amount of proficiency in knowing how to use the tool.
Jason
On 9/20/05, Kovács Levente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:14:34 -0400
Dan McMahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does it work on linux on
> other than x86? NetBSD on sparc64? FreeBSD on PowerPC? I don't
> know
Well, it does, but NO JAVA please. So if someone comes this list and
say... "Why don't you use .NET?". Cross platform, etc... whatever...
No, I think we should not use Java, nor any other crapmaking stuff...
Levente
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