Star Sun's Java Desktop System 2 is No Improvement
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
SUN Microsystems Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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Daan
by Raptor on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 15:33 UTC

That makes Java and OpenOffice about the two slowest applications in the UNIX-world, I would guess. I can only imagine two reasons for that:

Could it be becuase the both offer cross platform GUI toolkits!!!. Anything that uses crossplatfrom tool kits for prtability is always considered slow, mozilla, itunes, wmplayer on MacOs X and on solaris.

BTW, it is the general consensus that StarOffice 6.0 and up are faster on the same hardware/OS than the previous releases. That has been my experience as well. SO7/OO.o 1.1 are faster.

Java is not slow only GUIs developed on Java are. There was a benchmark a few months ago on OSnews on language performance and java could hold a bright candle to any of the other languages in the benchmark.