Quake 2 is a 13 year old game. :)
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:57 PM, retard <r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote: > Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:06:32 -0400, bearophile wrote: > >> retard: >>> quake 2 port - http://bytonic.de/html/jake2_webstart.html >> >> Have you read some of that code? No Java programmer writes code like >> that. That code is the "exception that confirms the rule" (I don't know >> how this is normally written in English). The rule is that Java code is >> slow ;-) > > I tested this game on my low-end HTPC (timedemo, map demo2). It's a Core > 2 Duo with OC'd Geforce 8600. Got 850 FPS @ 1920x1080 with default > quality settings. Does this make Java slow? I think I've heard that > 30..50 fps is acceptable level in video games. It's hard to believe that > idiomatic Java would be 15..30 times slower than this. I played through > the whole demo. Not a single problem with the GC, the user experience was > much better than with the original version 10 years ago. >