Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 20th Apr 2008 15:43 UTC
Geek.com is running an opinion piece on the extensive reliance of programmers today on languages like Java and .NET. The author lambastes the performance penalties that are associated with running code inside virtualised environments, like Java's and .NET's. "It increases the compute burden on the CPU because in order to do something that should only require 1 million instructions (note that on modern CPUs 1 million instructions executes in about one two-thousandths (1/2000) of a second) now takes 200 million instructions. Literally. And while 200 million instructions can execute in about 1/10th of a second, it is still that much slower." The author poses an interesting challenge at the end of his piece - a challenge most OSNews readers will have already taken on. Note: Please note that many OSNews items now have a "read more" where the article in question is discussed in more detail.
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Today, Java desktop apps are not exactly slow. But the slowness has been replaced by a tendency to be horrendously irritating. Download LimeWire and you will quickly become afraid to move your mouse. Because every time you move it, say, a quarter inch, you get a new and annoying popup giving you all the gory details about another song you didn't really care about, and blotting out your view of something that you *did* care about.