Maybe the AWT system components are OpenGL-accelerated, but other in-Java parts are not. For example, image operations can be OpenGL-accelerated in JDK 1.5 (presently you have to request it).
In the above example, on most Windows boxes, I get roughly comparable performance using accelerated Java2D as I get doing the same things in Java3D or JOGL, and it's fast. On the other hand, on Macs, the same stuff runs 30-40x faster in JOGL or Java3D than it does in Java2D.
So when is this "broadband dream" going to be a reality for me? Now, I live in what is supposedly the most Internet-saavy area in the state, and yet we have no residental broadband options! I mean, the lines here, although they don't get very good analog connections, are capable of handling DSL, but the phone company refuses to allow you to use DSL.. the ISPs would like to provide the service. I know the lines are capable of handling DSL because there's one ISP that registered as a DSL provider but they charge numbers way beyond my budget. We heralded an upgrade by our cable company as our long-awaited solution, but after 4 years of upgrades and $32 million dollars, about three weeks before they began signing people up, the company announced the service would be halted for possibly one to two years or possibly more due to a buyout. (But of course, their high-priced commercial cable modem service is THRIVING.) Satellite service? Hourly fees, bandwith limitations, high lag, and the dishes are prohibited by some local law.. ugh. Really, somebody could make a lot of money here if they didn't have their [CENSORED].
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Really? I've had no trouble watching Cartoon Network's Friday Night Fix on my Macs, and I've tried it in both VLC and Windows Media Player.
Aren't some of them using Jython, which is really just Python on top of Java anyway.
I wish that you were right. I really, really do.
Maybe the AWT system components are OpenGL-accelerated, but other in-Java parts are not. For example, image operations can be OpenGL-accelerated in JDK 1.5 (presently you have to request it).
In the above example, on most Windows boxes, I get roughly comparable performance using accelerated Java2D as I get doing the same things in Java3D or JOGL, and it's fast. On the other hand, on Macs, the same stuff runs 30-40x faster in JOGL or Java3D than it does in Java2D.
My question is: Will their JDK 1.5 port going to be ready?
It sounded like it wasn't very far along, and I need my hot OpenGL-accelerated Tiger-on-Tiger action.
So when is this "broadband dream" going to be a reality for me?
Now, I live in what is supposedly the most Internet-saavy area in the state, and yet we have no residental broadband options!
I mean, the lines here, although they don't get very good analog connections, are capable of handling DSL, but the phone company refuses to allow you to use DSL.. the ISPs would like to provide the service. I know the lines are capable of handling DSL because there's one ISP that registered as a DSL provider but they charge numbers way beyond my budget.
We heralded an upgrade by our cable company as our long-awaited solution, but after 4 years of upgrades and $32 million dollars, about three weeks before they began signing people up, the company announced the service would be halted for possibly one to two years or possibly more due to a buyout. (But of course, their high-priced commercial cable modem service is THRIVING.)
Satellite service? Hourly fees, bandwith limitations, high lag, and the dishes are prohibited by some local law.. ugh.
Really, somebody could make a lot of money here if they didn't have their [CENSORED].