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Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks
Mark Wielaard writes "The gcj team created a natively compiled build of the Eclipse IDE. The resulting binary starts up faster then with any traditional JVM since there is no virtual machine to initialize or slow byte code interpreter or just in time compiler involved. This means that gcj got a lot better since the last Slashdot story in December about gcj and Eclipse. Red Hat provides RPMs for easy installation. Footnotes has screenshots by Havoc Pennington of the Eclipse IDE with GTK+ widgets."
Looks like you need to play with Eclipse a little more... It doesnt even come near VStudio in terms of features, etc.
"then" represents a temporal relationship, "starts up faster" definitely qualifies as a time comparison.
Real men use pico.
Swing and all other "modern kewl Java tools that run gobs of native code look sweet and fly!!!" are not exactly bolstering my image of Java as fast code.
.NET team has admitted the current runtime only really scales to 2 processors (maybe 4), definitely not 8 (look for that to change). But whatever, actually DOING STUFF in Java is SLOW....
The latest ultra-rad GUI from BEA, this, well, the only time performance really sucks is when... they're actually executing Java code! But when they run in C++, well, then, they're totally awesome!
Okay, this is kind of easy, piling on, pouring salt in the wound. People write server-side code in Java, and a network roundtrip to the database dwarfs time spent executing code in the middleware, so if Java promotes maintainable code in the middle, that's "A Good Thing". And the
. No, We, the prefects of the will of the Light-Good "God," the wu wei, tao, chi. It flows through us. Then the vitriolic black oil-blood that flows through Malda's dark heart came to crush us, to smother our light, to quell sarcastic, funny expressions of self.
We are superior, more clever, and must work around Malda and the Shit Editors (TM) to bring light, humor and freedom of expression back here.
Malda is like Satan, with his evil minions crushing the resistance with temptation, the Apple of Eden, MODERATOR POINTS. This makes normally cynical and funny nerds turn into fuckin' losers policing Slashdot for anyone who thinks for themselves.
From Caesar, to Goebbels and Goering, to the progenitors of the Office of Fatherland Security and the un-Patriot Act, to the morons who "blame guns" for gun crime and destroy gun crime, to Rob Malda and the "editors"[term used loosely, I don't want to offend any professional editors].
For Caesar it was the Savages. For Goebbels and the Nazi regime it was the Jews and non-Aryans. For Fatherland Security, it's the "terrorist". And for Slashdot it's the TROLLS.
This is an unseen enemy, a loose miasma of people being funny and expressive being LABELED and HERDED to be KILLED in to ovens of moderations. This is sick how "power" corrupts.[term again used loosely, the only power rob has is to shut down Slashdot, get more ads to annoy us or delete comments he doesn't like. he isn't rich, doesn't make much money and has a fat wife, so Saddam Hussein is much cooler than him on the power scale.] Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely!
Malda snickers in his evil mind, "Vae Victus!" We will prevail, we will wait. One day, he will be vanquished, defeated and have the most dreadful epiphany. he is an agent of darkness, a destroyer of light. A pathetic, lost creature whose existence is nothing now and his identify will was away in the sands of time. To this we can all say, " Sic Semper Tyrannus."
The Future of SLASHDOT.
"Thank you, Dr. Science. Send your science questions to 'Ask Dr. Science.' Remember, he's not a real Doctor!"
" I have a Master's Degree."
"In SCIENCE!"
With all due apologies to the Duck's Breath Mystery Theater.
"But the trick is, you don't start a new JVM for each invocation"
You've admitted by yourself that Java architectures are characterized by the concern to workaround its deficiencies. Workaround upon workaround you stubbornly ignore the facts and you even get upset when someone raises the issue openly.
It's a bit like Sun Microsystems. They've been hearing for 5 years that they should do something about Swing; but they won't do anything about it. Worse, they would sue anybody who does.