Isnt Java an interpretive language rather then a compiled language? I seem to remember that much from somewhere @.@;
If it is, thats why its so laggy ^^ interpretive languages are always slower then compiled counterparts..
Course.. now with all of M$'s wierd .net crap thier bluring that line too with half-compiled, 'compiled as you need it' junk @.@
*El goes off and plays with Commodore Basic 4.0 on her P.E.T. which is older then she is~* *L*
El
Its kinda like BYOND--compiled into a bit-code (not strictly interpreted like, say, perl) but not quite in machine language.
-AbyssDragon | |
Try http://gtk.php.net/ for the home site, and http://gtk.miester.org/ for a decent set of HowTos and tutorials... these are the places where I cut my teeth on PHP-GTK... Oooh.. neat. I've yet to program in PHP, but it looks easy enough to learn, and my webhost supports it. I may just move my site over to it, instead of crappy old SHTML. And if I can use it for application development, even better. -AbyssDragon | |
AbyssDragon wrote:
But seems to have only had the effect of increasing application load time. Unfortunately, this is also true - in getting a Java program to run reasonably well on multiple platforms (one of its supposed strengths) is the need to help it along by creating necessary 'virtual machines', and/or 'just in time' compilers for each platform/OS to ensure that the programs runs as expected - usually this is the responsibility of the platform manufactuer, freeing up the programmer to concentrate on development of the program itself (by-the-way: BYOND does this too by providing Windoze and Linux DreamDaemons - a MUD written in DM will run in both platforms)- a side effect of which is sometimes longer load times or even some 'bloat-code' - sacrifices required to try to implement a 'write once, run anywhere' concept. But once it is loaded, Java can (if written right) run quite fast... Sometimes I read that it is the manufactuer of the VMs that are at fault when people complain about Java - a poorly implemented JavaVM can cause well written code to flounder like a beached whale... This may very well be true with Windows ever since they tried their own hand at a Java-like language called J++... | |
AbyssDragon wrote:
...if I can use it for application development, even You can, but be warned that it is still considered to be in its early stages. I had fun in it's earlier versions building an actual PHP-calculator that ran in Windows *and* with a little tweaking, get it to run from a webpage too! | |
Elorien wrote:
...goes off and plays with Commodore Basic 4.0 on her P.E.T. I dig up my old C64 occasionally too - there is a Usagi Yojimbo game that I always love to play. It doesn't work well on my C64 emulator. I've also made a little extra pocket money setting up C64s and C128s as message-board kiosks for bars and pool-halls... I write all the code for that in Commodore BASIC, or COMAL... | |
I dig up my old C64 occasionally too - there is a Usagi Yojimbo game that I always love to play. Heh, that game was awesome, even though I really sucked at it. I wish my C64 hadn't died, or I'd still probably have it running as well. -AbyssDragon | |
But seems to have only had the effect of increasing application load time.
Star Office, Forte... all of the Java apps I've used take roughly an hour and half apiece to start, and thats on a fairly new computer.
-AbyssDRagon