On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Michael Emmel wrote:
> The next thing I did was write a driver in Java for the CirrusLogic 5430 and
> got IFC then JFC running on it.
> It wasn't much slower than Swing on top of a Windowing system and this was on
> a fully interpeted.
> I unrolled the blit loops and it helped a lot. I would not suggest you try
> that at home but it showed me that
> it was feasible with todays jit's its proabably usable.
> If Sun ever decided to really release Hotspot.....
> Swing + Hotspot+ low level graphics lib is probably faster than todays native
> windowing systems.
> But I don't think Sun wants Java to have it own windowing system.
Actually, Java 1.1 does have it's own windowing system. It's called
TinyAWT, which has a Java implementation of all the AWT peers. And
it is used on a currently shipping Sun product - the JavaStation.
The JavaStation uses Java for everything - including the windowing
system, the OS (JavaOS) and all the device drivers.
Nigel Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mountain View, CA, USA. http://www.nrg.org/
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