Anyone out there know Java's AWT? How about .jnlp launches?

Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org
Sat Apr 1 16:49:10 UTC 2006


Nifty!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 08:41 AM 4/1/2006, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>Hi, Stef -
>
> >what is the speed of your VM on a normally fast :) Java VM?
>
>I don't know what a normally fast JVM is.  However I can say that on my 
>Mac it runs about 1/10 the speed of the native Squeak VM, in both 
>tinyBenchmark figures.  The BitBlt is much faster -- almost the same speed 
>-- and the end result is that the Mini image is entirely usable, even 
>without text or line drawing primitives, nor any of the stream 
>primitives.  I can think of various hacks to make it faster, but that's 
>not my focus right now.
>
>It's nice and small.  I've never printed it, so I can't say how many 
>pages, but it's 160k of source code.  The entire .jar file is 433k, which 
>includes the VM and the mini image (you know, the one that can decompile 
>800k of source code with temp names).
>
>         - Dan





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