Re: Trend towards platform specific languages

[Mark Phippard <markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/06/2005 02:13:25 PM:

> Loading iSeries Navigator is ridiculous: a gig of memory and it still 
takes
> over five minutes to load.  I know IBM tries to make it sound like less, 
but
> at least on my machine _all_ activity stops while the blasted garbage is
> loading.  It isn't as though you can go work on Client Access while 
you're
> waiting for the stupid thing to start--Java simply brings the entire 
machine
> to a standstill while it's starting. 

The overwhelming majority of iSeries Navigator is C++ not Java.  Java is 
mostly used in some of the configuration wizards that have been added. 
That being said, it does load a JVM at startup. 

My point is do not paint Java with this brush just because any single app 
happens to be slow.  Especially in this case, since the app in question is 
mostly not Java and was ungodly slow for years before it ever even used 
Java.

There are many, many Java apps the are small and fast.

Mark


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