java would be pretty hard on the helio. it's a big-ass hog on my desktop boxes - i cant imagine stellar performance on the helio
furthermore, all the class libs are just as much work as the vm, and it would be a significant work item to get awt ported to pgui ( significant work item = really a lot of work! ) tho the original picolinux helio dist came from transvirtual technologies, the authors of kaffe', which is an open source java clone. and that ran at one time, i would assume. despite that..... i feel that a lightweight interpreter is the way to go. if waba is as light as a scheme or a forth and codes like java, then it seems like a bright idea. the other thing to try would be the gjc, that would make native exe's. but i doubt that it's ported to the helio-linux2.X-mipsel architecture :-) On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Sean Barnes wrote: > > > >We need applications, especially a PIM. > > > > I'd certainly be interested in writing a PIM. Especially if I could > > write it in java and get more practice prior to the test. Is a > > java based > > PIM a possibility for PicoLinux/PicoGUI? > > > > There's something called Waba that's being ported to PicoGUI. I think it's > the same syntax as Java, but with an entirely different class structure > designed for PDA's (I haven't used Java or Waba, so I don't know the exact > differences). It's not ready yet, but it might be an option in the future. > > -Sean > > > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel > -- John L. Utz III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
