Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-21 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:55:52PM -0800, noisebrain wrote: > > Aren't we forgetting something in this discussion? > > Average PC has 64M, you want to write an application that runs > on this PC, your dev environment (JBuilder or whatever) > has, in addition to the application, a compiler, the I

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-20 Thread noisebrain
Aren't we forgetting something in this discussion? Average PC has 64M, you want to write an application that runs on this PC, your dev environment (JBuilder or whatever) has, in addition to the application, a compiler, the IDE, a debugger... ...your development environment is probably going to

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-18 Thread kornel c
Nathan, >Whoa, Kornel... we disagree on very little, if anything. You're welcome >to point out deficiencies in the sample implementation, and I hope I'm >welcome to point out that it *is* a sample implementation (which is why >there's a market for companies like TowerJ to create *real* >implement

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
kornel c wrote: > > Dear Nathan, > > >But, such considerations aside, it is useful to understand what problems > >are inherent versus what are implementation details. Some of Java's > > I do understand memory management. I just don't necessarily want to have to > care about it in Java: Java is

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-18 Thread kornel c
Dear Nathan, >But, such considerations aside, it is useful to understand what problems >are inherent versus what are implementation details. Some of Java's I do understand memory management. I just don't necessarily want to have to care about it in Java: Java is advertised as an environment whic

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
kornel c wrote: > > Dear Nathan, > > >Be careful of getting too hung up on the numbers. Memory management is a > >bit of an art, and different JDKs take different approaches to fitting > > It wasn't me who got hung up on the numbers, it was my OS. Hey, I wouldn't > have even noticed the memory

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-18 Thread kornel c
Dear Nathan, >Be careful of getting too hung up on the numbers. Memory management is a >bit of an art, and different JDKs take different approaches to fitting It wasn't me who got hung up on the numbers, it was my OS. Hey, I wouldn't have even noticed the memory requirements for long had it not

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
quot;Hello World" until I tweaked it down to 4 MB manually. > > -kornel > > - Original Message - > From: Nathan Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Brian Pomerantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-18 Thread kornel c
. On Solaris each intance took up 20 MB for a "Hello World" until I tweaked it down to 4 MB manually. -kornel - Original Message - From: Nathan Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Brian Pomerantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:01:17PM +, Nicholas Wright wrote: > Hi > > Re: 128MB minimum memory - JBuilder was a big application on Windows... what > makes you think it would be smaller written in Java? Actually JBuilder Foundation is more efficient than the previous versions because we had

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 02:34:27PM -0800, Nathan Meyers wrote: > Java is a memory hog... it's not JBuilder, it's Java. I've found that > my system was pretty much useless for any Java work at 64M. When Linux > JDKs catch up with some of the improvements now being enjoyed in other > environments (l

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Nathan Meyers
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 03:34:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > The success of any product depends on the advantages it offers and failure > always depends on restrictions it imposes. Most of the users will be using 64MB > RAM systems. For JBuilder on Linux should they add more me

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Nicholas Wright
> > To: José Romildo Malaquias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Adam Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise > Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Romildo_Malaquias?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Ambrose <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:47:18PM -0500, Alan Hazelton wrote: > > I agree with your surprise though. It seems quite outrageous to require so > much memory for an application. I think the JBuilder team should have spent > a bit more time trimming the memory requirements before rushing the produ

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Nathan Meyers
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:47:18PM -0500, Alan Hazelton wrote: > > José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > > The recommended minimum memory is 128MB! Is that really need? I have > > only 64MB. Would it be worth downloading and experimenting? Is anybody > > else using JBuilder under Linux with less tha

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Syam_Kumar_Abburi
Hi, The success of any product depends on the advantages it offers and failure always depends on restrictions it imposes. Most of the users will be using 64MB RAM systems. For JBuilder on Linux should they add more memory? I do not agree with you. If it is not on Linux the product would have gon

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:10:05PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:37:51AM -0800, Adam Ambrose wrote: > > Yes, you just need to fill out a million forms to get it, but you can > > get it for free from the Inprise web site: > > http://www.inprise.com/jbuilder/found

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Paolo Ciccone
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:26:56PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 04:40:47PM -0500, Alan Hazelton wrote: > > I've got a Redhat 6.1 system with the Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 > > installed. I installed the Borland Jbuilder 3 foundation IDE. It runs > > ok except for a

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Nathan Meyers
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:10:05PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:37:51AM -0800, Adam Ambrose wrote: > > Yes, you just need to fill out a million forms to get it, but you can > > get it for free from the Inprise web site: > > http://www.inprise.com/jbuilder/found

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:47:18PM -0500, Alan Hazelton wrote: > > José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > > The recommended minimum memory is 128MB! Is that really need? I have > > only 64MB. Would it be worth downloading and experimenting? Is anybody > > else using JBuilder under Linux with less tha

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Alan Hazelton
José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > The recommended minimum memory is 128MB! Is that really need? I have > only 64MB. Would it be worth downloading and experimenting? Is anybody > else using JBuilder under Linux with less than the recommended 128MB? I tried it with 48MB and it was almost unusable.

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Vincent Trussart
> On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:37:51AM -0800, Adam Ambrose wrote: > > Yes, you just need to fill out a million forms to get it, but you can > > get it for free from the Inprise web site: > > http://www.inprise.com/jbuilder/foundation/ > > The recommended minimum memory is 128MB! Is that really need

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:37:51AM -0800, Adam Ambrose wrote: > Yes, you just need to fill out a million forms to get it, but you can > get it for free from the Inprise web site: > http://www.inprise.com/jbuilder/foundation/ The recommended minimum memory is 128MB! Is that really need? I have onl

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 01:26:56PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 04:40:47PM -0500, Alan Hazelton wrote: > > I've got a Redhat 6.1 system with the Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 > > installed. I installed the Borland Jbuilder 3 foundation IDE. It runs > > ok except for a

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-17 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 04:40:47PM -0500, Alan Hazelton wrote: > I've got a Redhat 6.1 system with the Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 > installed. I installed the Borland Jbuilder 3 foundation IDE. It runs > ok except for a few little annoyances. [...] Is there a downloadable version of JBuilder 3 for

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-15 Thread Nathan Meyers
Alan Hazelton wrote: > > I've got a Redhat 6.1 system with the Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 > installed. I installed the Borland Jbuilder 3 foundation IDE. It runs > ok except for a few little annoyances. One of which is the fact that > the "Exit" item is missing from the File menu and the Window m

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-15 Thread Robb Shecter
Brian Pomerantz wrote: > It is a solution to the problem, though. The Sun JDK doesn't have > that problem with JBuilder. I also found it to be more responsive > running JBuilder than the Blackdown JDK is. Speaking of advantages to the Sun/Inprise JDK, anybody know about how it handles older or

Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-15 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 04:40:47PM -0500, Alan Hazelton wrote: > I've got a Redhat 6.1 system with the Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 > installed. I installed the Borland Jbuilder 3 foundation IDE. It runs > ok except for a few little annoyances. One of which is the fact that > the "Exit" item is miss

Blackdown JDK vs Sun/Inprise

1999-12-15 Thread Alan Hazelton
I've got a Redhat 6.1 system with the Blackdown JDK 1.2.2 RC3 installed. I installed the Borland Jbuilder 3 foundation IDE. It runs ok except for a few little annoyances. One of which is the fact that the "Exit" item is missing from the File menu and the Window manager's Close item doesn't do a