Nelson,
I seriously use Swing under Linux for a Media Librarian system. The
performance that I see under Linux is comparable to the other platforms that I
have access to; i.e., OS/2, Solaris 7 and Win98. In fact, Swing under Linux
runs better than under OS/2 because of the lack of the JIT. I think that the
JIT just makes Swing slower and sometimes I actually disable the JIT to get
better performance. I suppose that I have just gotten used to it being slow.
Feature-wise, Swing has a lot to offer. Here is a quote from George Saab of
the Swing team with regard to performance:
"Another issue concerns footprint and performance. Along with quality,
these have been the primary focus of the Kestrel update release mentioned
above. We feel that we have made some promising advances in this area.
Our tests on real-world apps using Swing show that there has been a steady
improvements in footprint, startup time, and GUI responsiveness from
JDK1.2fcs -> JDK 1.2.2 -> Kestrel. We'll discuss specifics of what we've
been doing in this area and share some numbers at the advanced-swing
session at JavaONE. (Slides will be available shortly afterwards on our
web site for those unable to attend)."
Kestrel is the code name for a new beta which the Swing team expects to be
available in mid-August.
Cynthia Jeness
Nelson Minar wrote:
> I've just started looking at using Swing for my Java project. It seems
> really really slow. Is anyone here seriously using Swing under Linux,
> without a JIT? Is there some way to improve things? Do JITs make
> enough difference to make it bearable?
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