Well, I did a very unscientific test of my own. I went through the
trouble of installing jdk118 for linux + Swing. Then I tried to run the
SwingSet examples. I run a Mandrake 6.0 machine, so it hung. At someone's
suggestion I replaced the libpthreads library with one from a RedHat 6.0
machine. jdk118 ran SwingSet, but it took nearly twice as long to load
than did blackdown's jdk117_v3. (42 second/ 26 seconds). Just clicking
through the example in the SwingSet didn't really feel any faster, but
this is a purely subjective "measure".
Thus spake Peter Schuller on Tue, 09 Nov 1999:
> Hello!
>
> Quick question: the IBM JDK has shown *very* impressive benchmark results.
> Now, in light of the recently postponed release date for potato (Debian), I'm
> wondering if this is just a benchmark thing, or if it really "feels" faster
> (such as scrolling in Swing for exmample)?
>
> I can't decide whether to go to the potential trouble of running an "unstable"
> version of Debian, just for the sake of being able to run IBM's JDK.
>
> Thank you,
>
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