Re: GUI toolkit for Ada again (Java with jgnat?)

["McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me>]

In article <9iq1si$k8abb$1@ID-77306.news.dfncis.de>, Wolfgang Jeltsch
<jeltsch@tu-cottbus.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>> Has anyone considered using Java bytecode and compiling it using the
>> Ada95 JGnat compiler? This would solve the cross-platform problem quite
>> easily.
> 
> This would also produce software which is so slow that it is in my
> opinion  not usable. (Of course this depends on the VM you use.) At the
> moment I develop a Java-Swing application for my university. I use  the
> Java 2(TM) SDK, version 1.3.1. If I see how slow this application runs 
> I just wonder why anybody uses Java at all.
> 
>> [...]
> 
> Wolfgang

I've been using the IBM JDK which really runs fast (relative to natively 
compiled proggies).  Java proggies can be relatively speedy, depending 
on how thier written. And how good (or crappy) the VM is. 
I wouldn't use the Sun VM if my life depended on it. IBM, however, seems 
to have actually done a halfway decent job with thier VM.  Check it out
sometime.

McDoobie
chris@dont.spam.me