On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 05:21:33PM +0000, jordan muscott wrote: > I've just noticed bug 4498974 on the Sun website. Im totally shocked about > this. It was my understanding (please correct me if i am wrong), that the > promised increase in performance with Swing was based around the use of > VolatileImage. Personally, i am interested in using Java for game > developement so i find this very disappointiong. > > It seems to me that Sun have spent the last year or so working on a solution > that will only be of any benefit whatsoever to people using the operating > system of a company who would like to wipe Sun and Java off the planet. I > really can't believe this. Can anyone offer me any hope?
You want someone here to make sense of Sun's Microsoft strategy? OK... Sun's Microsoft strategy is to shoot itself in the foot at every available opportunity. VolatileImage is a client-side technology, and Sun is trying to regain the client-side foothold it lost by "winning" its lawsuit against Microsoft. In the battle for the desktop, winning Windows developers with faster graphics is way more important than spending the time fixing VolatileImage on Linux and Solaris. If it helps create demand for getting a bundled (modern) JDK back into Windows, it will be a brilliant victory. The most likely path to a fix is for someone in the Blackdown realm to take on this nasty job and submit the fix back to Sun. This might not be too bad a problem with the SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) libraries - but it'll need to be taken on by some adventurous soul who's signed the appropriate Sun licenses. Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
