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  1. Path: newshub.cts.com!dbell
  2. From: dbell@shvn.com (Doug Bell)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
  4. Subject: Re: Advice to Java proponents (was Re: Will Java kill C++?)
  5. Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 04:20:51 -0700
  6. Organization: FTL Games
  7. Message-ID: <dbell-2004960420510001@news2.cts.com>
  8. References: <315BFB16.B74@isg.de> <4jgv6t$hon@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> <DpG1s1.GC9@research.att.com> <4k71f5$ot5@news2.ios.com> <31684F33.2528@ibm.net> <denatale-0804960926250001@grail1213.nando.net> <317364A8.696F@esec.ch> <31774b44.0@cheese.pcug.org.au>
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  11. In article <31774b44.0@cheese.pcug.org.au>, njpayne@pcug.org.au (Nick
  12. Payne) wrote:
  13.  
  14. > Oliver Plohmann <opl@esec.ch> wrote:
  15. > 
  16. > >in between Smaltalk and C++. This is what is needed! Tired of writing
  17. > >a little app in Smalltalk which results in a 2 MB EXE-file that takes
  18. > >several minutes to start up?
  19. > 
  20. > Download and try Sun's Java Workshop, which is written in Java. On a
  21. > Pentium 100 with 64 meg of RAM it's so slow that you can see each of
  22. > the toolbar buttons individually painting themselves on the screen...
  23. > 
  24. > Nick
  25.  
  26. Yeah, but that's temporary.  Using a JIT compiler, it will be pretty hard
  27. to see it redraw.  :)
  28.  
  29. Doug Bell
  30. dbell@shvn.com
  31.