Hi CHarles,
> The big problem for me as an app developer in bioinformatics is
> finding an OS worth investing in. For the time being I'm using Win XP
> SP3, but not really happy with the choice. I need something fairly
> mainstream so potential users will be able to easily download and try
> it
How long has it been since you've done performance tests on Java? JRE 1.5
was a HUGE performance jump from 1.4, and 1.6 was another smaller but
still significant jump from 1.5.
And switching to the Server JVM from the client can get you another order
of magnitude gain, though it depends on what y
Yeah JAVA sucks. On most platforms it sits atop too high a stack of
routines all doing there own thing and eats up too much CPU time. The
slightest extra load to the box when JAVA is running and it all goes
bad!
On 4/16/14, Charles Belhumeur wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I'm still hunting for
Thanks for the info. I'm still hunting for the "right" OS for some of
my projects. Looked at BSD a few years back. Seemed OK except there
wasn't a lot of apps and they didn't support a lot of hardware coming
out at the time. Something FreeDos is working hard to address.
The big problem for me
