Re: Performance on today's desktop

gerrards8 @yahoo.com wrote:
> With today's *average* personal/business desktop computing power, do you
> consider Java based client applications to be slow? (to remain pure,
> let's just concentrate on Swing based apps)
>
> If so, at what point (in time and/or JVM release) did this performance
> issue become a non-issue?
>
> If not, is it the application architecture or the JVM (and its libs,
> i.e., Swing) that's behind this lag in performance?

I've been using the IntelliJ IDEA Java development environment, a Swing
app, for about two years and it's fine on average to high end PCs. At
first it seemed a little slower than native GUI applications, but
definitely useable. I never had any problem with it's speed. Since
about a year ago, the difference has not been noticable; there's been
no "lag".

> Please base you reply on desktop computers that can be purchased in your
> market today, clean of all the infestations of unnecessary memory
> resident and background processes that are normally pre-installed on
> commodity type Win systems.

Most computers I work with are loaded with lots of background
processes. Actually, one of the guys has noticed that it doesn't play
well with the Novell Groupwise client for Windows, come to think of it.
But I never noticed that problem.

In general, my sense is that with today's machines, and improvements to
Java, Swing application performance is acceptible. You could easily try
it out for yourself by trying some of the apps found here:

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/

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