Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)

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From: Doug Bell
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 11:20

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In article <31774b44.0@cheese.pcug.org.au>, njpayne@pcug.org.au (Nick
Payne) wrote:

> Oliver Plohmann <opl@esec.ch> wrote:
> 
> >in between Smaltalk and C++. This is what is needed! Tired of writing
> >a little app in Smalltalk which results in a 2 MB EXE-file that takes
> >several minutes to start up?
> 
> Download and try Sun's Java Workshop, which is written in Java. On a
> Pentium 100 with 64 meg of RAM it's so slow that you can see each of
> the toolbar buttons individually painting themselves on the screen...
> 
> Nick

Yeah, but that's temporary.  Using a JIT compiler, it will be pretty hard
to see it redraw.  :)

Doug Bell
dbell@shvn.com

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Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 04:20:51 -0700
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