Re: [NTLK] Off-Topic Linux (PDA) Question

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 10:55:13 EST

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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Brian wrote:

>
> >on 10/30/01 9:07 PM, David Orriss Jr at dave_at_davenet.net wrote:
> >
> >the fastest processors? Also, I have yet to see anything written in Java
> >that was actually useful, although I would be glad to be proven wrong on
> >this. It seems that Java is the buzzword-compliant platform with little to
>
> Crushftp is a pretty decent ftpd that's entirely java; saturates a 10bT
> cable connection pretty well on just a 66MHz PowerPC; it does take 18megs
> RAM though.

I'd blame this on 1) MacOS's lack of a good JVM until recently and 2) damn
Java GUI widget classes (AWT/Swing). I Hate Swing(TM). It's bloated and
slow ass slow. OTOH, it's much prettier than AWT. OTOH, I can hand-code
AWT GUIs. Ah, tradeoffs.

To give you an idea, the Java NPDS Tracker that runs on my server (a Linux
box with Kernel 2.2.19 and JDK 1.2.2) uses 4.5MB of disk.

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