On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:11, Jess Holle<[email protected]> wrote: > Of course NeoOffice uses Java for portions of the UI... > > [http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_and_Aqua]
Yea, and the last time I used it (before OO 3, which brought a native Cocoa UI), I found that it needed about 50% more memory than OO under X11 for the same tasks. And that's with only the GUI rewritten in Java. Imagine how wonderful it'd be if it were all written in Java. ;-) OTOH, it's been over 10 years since Java was released and work on Hotspot has done wonders for performance. If a tools like Eclipse and NetBeans can run well on the JVM, there's no reason why a substantial office package couldn't. But let's be real: who's going to want to port OO's 9'000'000 lines of code [1]? I mean, I type pretty fast but... [1]: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html // Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
