[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:16:35AM -0600, Jonathan C Patschke wrote:
> I'm bothered by the fact that this trend doesn't seem to be stopping at 
> installation gizmos.  More and more Solaris-specific administration 
> utilities are being written in Java by Sun.  I know it's typically a 
> lot easier to hammer out an app in Java than in C, but are Sun's 
> programmers really -that- strapped for time, or have they forgotten 
> that not everyone has a Blade 2000 or an Ultra 80 on their desk?  Or 
> are the Java programmers on the Solaris team simply not up-to-speed on 
> how to make a Java/Swing application more optimized?

I've got a Blade 1000 with 900Mhz CPU, and Java is *still* kinda slow.

Bill

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bill bradford
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