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It's probably not java (as in the java VM on the machine), but javascript in |
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the browser. I have noticed that firefox's javascript is noticably slower |
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on linux than on windows (both 64-bit and 32). Check out for example |
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digg.com (a site that makes extensive use of javascript). There is a |
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noticeable performance difference. |
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... HH |
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On 12/29/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> posted |
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> 5bdc1c8b0612291445h1c927ecag3cfdf19f134a6e28@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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> below, on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:45:37 -0800: |
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> > Note that if this was just Flash on the front page it would be no |
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> > big deal. However I think there may be additional issues around the |
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> speed |
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> > of Java once you log in and get inside the web site. That is what really |
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> > matters and it's very slow on this machine. |
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> What Java are you using? When I switched to Gentoo I decided I didn't |
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> need Java enough to override its being proprietary, so I don't have it |
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> installed here and haven't had it installed on Gentoo at all. However, |
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> back on Mandrake, I noticed Java was /dreadfully/ slow at times on Linux. |
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> IIRC, I was using kaffe JVM at that time and attributed it to that, but I |
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> was trying to run broadbandreports.com's Java based speedtest applet, and |
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> it was simply too slow executing to produce anything even /close/ to |
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> reliable results. |
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> So it may be the JVM or something Java related, rather than flash or |
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> whatever. |
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> Happily, now that Sun is GPLing Java, I should be able to merge a decent |
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> and freedom software based Java one of these days. I'm looking forward |
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> to it! =8^) |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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Harry Holt, PMP |