Can't think of anything I've worked on that requires the backwards compatibility. We'll just have to test. Jonathan On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
> Well, a little project I started over the weekend turned into a > monster. But I think it's done, and if there are no bugs, I'll be > amazed. The goal was to increase performance speed, and one little > test I did suggested that script processing, in particular where > math or atom selections are involved, has increased in speed by > 10-50%. So I'm satisfied. > > But there was a price. Up until now we have had this line in > build.xml: > > source="1.3" target="1.1" > > That now reads > > source="1.4" target="1.4" > > For Jmol 11.9. Is there some reason we should be sticking with the > older compatibility? The Java 1.3 version is long out of service, I > think, and when I tried downloading it and installing it as a plug- > in to Firefox, and it just crashed the browser. The advantage of 1.4 > appears to be some additional methods that work with BitSets (all > those atom and bond selections) that make those operations far more > efficient. > > Bob > > -- > Robert M. Hanson > Professor of Chemistry > St. Olaf College > 1520 St. Olaf Ave. > Northfield, MN 55057 > http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr > phone: 507-786-3107 > > > If nature does not answer first what we want, > it is better to take what answer we get. > > -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the > business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term > contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call > away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow Chemistry Department [email protected] UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 Oshkosh, WI 54901 http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/gutow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
