Ok maybe I missunderstood OP's post, I saw the word "desktop" and thought he was talking about full-blown desktop apps. :)
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, August 20, 2010 10:04:41 Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> What are these Java programs for the desktop that run fast? I haven't >> encountered any, but maybe that's just because I didn't try them all >> out. Eclipse takes at least 20 seconds to load on startup on my quad >> core, that's not very fast. On the other hand, CodeBlocks which is >> coded in C++ and has a few dozen plugins installed runs in an >> instant. > > There's plenty of Java code which runs just as fast or faster than comperable > C++ code. I've seen it. However, you're generally talking about small, > computation-intensive programs. When you're talking about full-blown desktop > applications, there's so much more going on than math operations that the game > is entirely different. I'm not sure that there are any full-blown desktop Java > applications which are all that efficient in comparison to similar C++ > applications. They're definitely useable, but not necessarily as efficient. Of > course, the difference between Ecilpse and CodeBlocks could be entirely a > design > issue rather than a language one. Once you're dealing with anything that > complex, accurately comparing apps can be difficult. It could just as easily > be > that Eclipse's design isn't as efficient - be it due to features that it has > which CodeBlocks doesn't or poor design, or whatever. > > - Jonathan M Davis >