Not nessessarly. Freenet requires a lot of horsepower because of all the crypto required for even simple connections.
<a href="http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=45250">Java vs C++</a> Java vs C++ "Shootout" Revisited June 15, 2004 Summary "I was sick of hearing people say Java was slow," says Keith Lea, "so I took the benchmark code for C++ and Java from the now outdated Great Computer Language Shootout (Fall 2001) and ran the tests myself." Lea's results three years on? Java, he finds, is significantly faster than optimized C++ in many cases. <img src="http://www.kano.net/javabench/graph"> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:15:50 -0500, David Masover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > What's the health of Freenet as a whole right now? I'm getting lots of > pages taking forever to load (or never loading), and I think it's still > using 100% CPU on my 200 mhz router on 768k (up and down) DSL, even > though the browser is on another machine... > > I was planning to make a permanent node, but I don't run it much > anymore, because my brother games (so he needs high bandwidth and low > latency), and Freenet is still the most costly service I run on that > thing (in terms of CPU, bandwidth, etc.) > > I know it's been mentioned before, but I'll state for the record that I > think Java was a bad choice. Rather than start a new flame war, I'd > like to go read up on why it was chosen (any archives I should look at?). > > For the record, I have never, ever seen a java program load quickly, run > even tolerably fast for anything beyond the most basic things, and I've > never seen an open source implementation of Java work firsthand. I > don't like the syntax, but that's a personal issue -- I'd love to be > proven wrong on this. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iQIVAwUBQO4b9ngHNmZLgCUhAQLCTA//frjR/duxAbReDA13WmWZQLA9LQdzcJ2v > 2GJ+kv80fJC+P1U6h6/ghv+oTrNUDCnZweLNYRm5G6WNDiNPdnyFiNRe3+arfQsh > TR3BCc1CwIn/TuO/7s0V4pjIpGnQgySx3VAy9i8ujYtCV5t6Kkdaps6tC4x32tzM > ZFo3gXWjuQ0zGF1psBRlwH84+ia5lDjSqBjOK7P47FKAXk1/vOocSYAztrCuIgw0 > qYK5oYStm/3miLzid08B4Mni0GL5m4+HlmitBgt2nVgqNhaKZN/HtUWtCVU8wNhR > 55XhmkR3+nHhO994R7U2/DRyYo7w7Yv6obaZsqEZE+ddUYErjfwb2XLr+T1OgM0F > hQaXPzGY1Onc9Yb9a3iZPkdVVTCPbcKHK0nrjZkei6VJ90oANurMNUgo4ZyHtuZT > BFMq44b6AVqa6quandxEcQzhqy6uqhvXVin6l0PCzxtcUZHXQacjrEvgqNngXZl0 > gvcOiPoKN/rH7vAXdHG9C4F+ZuSXAenWUWsgspyxvoPXItTMIMxbKQBG7wnYJu9w > ahEHIGGdhks6eRgnq/hrroL/yzV3uEa5qhrmSqdRqW68Nr90kgHkJitUCqSKG/LZ > fLTR75QC+L+n148Z3V5uHaTQSwjazDrnJ65Ln7apzANpdR9dmO+7cpm4EBFCmZiH > NbTMfmg3wHQ= > =pgvD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]