From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53611649a57c674a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-14 17:01:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.mi.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "McDoobie" Subject: Re: GUI toolkit for Ada again (Java with jgnat?) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Organization: The Caffinated Corps. References: <9hqhm7$f3u2r$1@ID-77306.news.dfncis.de> <9iq1si$k8abb$1@ID-77306.news.dfncis.de> User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta4 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:01:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.0.109.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.mi.home.com 995155302 24.0.109.49 (Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:01:42 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:01:42 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9963 Date: 2001-07-15T00:01:42+00:00 List-Id: In article <9iq1si$k8abb$1@ID-77306.news.dfncis.de>, Wolfgang Jeltsch 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