Re: cross-platform source code editor

[larrybar@eng.auburn.edu (Larry A Barowski)]

M�rio Amado Alves <maa@liacc.up.pt> wrote in message news:<mailman.1017855424.17230.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> > Emacs is certainly better now than it used to be, with Customization
>  options on
> > the menus.
> 
> Yes, but not enough for me. I still find the structure and operation
> confusing. But the again, it might be merely subjective.
> 
> >> BTW in my opinion the best free editor for readability out there is 
> >> jGRASP. I'm planning to reinstall it. Hope the few bugs it had some 
> >> time ago are smashed by now.
>  
> > That's presumably a java tool - isn't it dog slow?
> 
> Yes it is written in Java. (It used to be in C, I think.) But no, it is
> not slow. And does prety complex things too. You should have a look see.
> /* As was already noted here on CLA, Java's reputation for being slow is
> mostly false. */
> 

     On a fairly new machine speed is not a problem.
jGRASP is usable on a P300. On a P500, startup time and
first-time dialog popup time may be just a bit annoying.
On anything much faster than that, you won't worry about
speed. It is a bit slower on Linux than Windows, and if
you run under JDK 1.2.X, significantly slower than
on JDK 1.3 or higher.

     Java itself is not slow, but the Swing gui library
is when compared to others (Swing is also very flexible
and allows rapid gui development). CSD diagram generation
in jGRASP, which is mostly array access, takes about
2.5 times longer in Java than in C, and Java is doing
array bounds checking while C is not.


-Larry Barowski (jGRASP developer)


> --MAA