[geeks] Browser licensing?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Alois Hammer wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 01:58:55 -0400, "Joshua Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
> said:
>> The actual startup speed of JVM or .NET have no relevent here as they
>> clearly aren't trying hard to start quickly, nor do they show you the
>> entire possible range of ways for a VM to start.
> 
> I was referring to the instantiation of J2SE either as standalone or as
> a Firefox plugin on this machine.  Startup time is essentially
> identical, even though we'd certainly like the browser plugin to start
> as fast as possible.  Unfortunately, the plugin has to drag the rest of
> J2SE with it.  I assume that Sun has finally realized that
> Java-on-the-server is about as far as Java is likely to go for the
> foreseeable future, but I remember a long marketing slog where Sun
> wanted everyone running their apps off the Web and/or network, quite
> possibly through a browser.  It's reasonable to assume that they spent a
> fairly long time making the plugin as fast as possible until giving up--
> if they have given up, which I doubt.  They're still trying to make
> everyone use network terminals, and they've only been pushing that on
> and off for twenty or so years.

Have you done any benchmarking comparing the startup performance of 
Sun's JRE with any of the others?  I don't have any reason to suspect 
that they would be faster, but it does pique my curiosity.

Peace...  Sridhar