Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:04:46 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Kagamin" <s...@here.lot> wrote in message > news:i4mjl0$2uc...@digitalmars.com... >> 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. > > For me, C::B always took somewhere around ten seconds to start up (and > then it kept using 5-10% CPU even when idling with all plugins disabled > - a number of other people reported the same thing). But it's been > awhile since I used it though, so maybe that's all fixed now. > > But yea, I can't remember ever seeing a non-trivial Java app that wasn't > a bit on the sluggish side.
If you want, you could go through these applications http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/ Maybe some of them don't suck. There are also games written in Java (your Java enabled browser can run these): quake 2 port - http://bytonic.de/html/jake2_webstart.html 4 kB games - http://javaunlimited.net/games/java4k_2007.php some opengl demos - http://slick.cokeandcode.com/static.php?page=demos Our gamedevs use Java 7 ea, so you could try if it's faster (at least the webstart progress dialog is different and can be customized): http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/jdk7/binaries/index.html
