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On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > My experience of Squirrel is a good 30 seconds of unresponsiveness when > pasting 100 lines or so in the SQL edit window, and I'm not exactly on a slow > machine either... > > > On 30 April 2012 21:57, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote: > Squirrel is pretty snappy and if you change the look and feel from the > default, not too ugly. Ricoh's InfoPrint Manager has an ugly but quick Swing > client. My last company has various ugly but quick Swing CCTV playback > applications. > > I wrote a network simulator that was less ugly, and snappy. I wrote a tiny > app that verifies MD5 sums so that non-technical staff could run quality > checks on files being loaded onto hardware just before shipping, and got > asked whether it was really in Java as it was fast and tiny. > > All that's not to say that the Swing-slow statements are unfounded. It just > takes some effort to make sure things are fast. I remember loading a date > picker at startup just because the classloading delay was visible if that was > left to when the user wanted it. Not a large delay, just visible. > > Another part of the story is background tasks, which hopefully just improved > in Java 7 with SecondaryLoop. I'm looking forward to trying that out. > > On Apr 30, 2012 3:38 PM, "Cédric Beust ♔" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday, April 30, 2012 8:17:03 PM UTC+2, phil swenson wrote: > java apps can feel snappy sometimes. but often the first time you hit > a menu item it takes forever to come up. Or if you leave an app > running, leave for another task and come bask - it takes quite a while > to become responsive again. also, garbage collection pauses are > annoying. > > I don't think it's the GC, but Swing is just horribly over-engineered. The > most successful Java desktop applications (if we can call these > > Agreed. I think overall, it's easier to create a reasonably responsive SWT > application while doing so in Swing requires a lot of time and expertise. > There are very, very few companies that can pull this off besides JetBrains. > > -- > Cédric > > -- > 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. > -- > 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. > > > > -- > Kevin Wright > mail: [email protected] > gtalk / msn : [email protected] > quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright > google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda > twitter: @thecoda > vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright > steam: kev_lee_wright > > "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not > regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current > conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of > the ledger" ~ Dijkstra > > -- > 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. -- 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.
