[Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow

[Battmain]

That's probably going to be the machine. :)   Jscript 
is still available on
the MS website and I think the 
current version is 5.6 and it is compatible
with XP.  
I last checked a month ago. 
FWIW, I have an old 1.1ghz laptop that
I use as a 
print server. When I boot it up to print something, I 
walk away
and return about 10 mins later. If I use IE 
to get into webmail and that
takes another 5-10 mins. 
You could probably experiment with a ram drive and
send your temp directories to it, (like the java cache, 
and the windows temp
directory.) When I did that on 
slower machines, it made a noticeable
improvement 
in speed. Now, with machines as fast as they are, 
I have not
been able to notice a significant improvement 
with those ram drives. You
could also try a USB memory 
stick to accomplish the same thing, although you
would
have to wait until the usb drivers get loaded up.
Brian
battmain at yahoo.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Karl Vacek
<kvacek at ameritech.net>
To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
Sent: Tuesday, August 12,
2008 3:27:38 PM
Subject: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow

OK, since we're on
computers, I have a real problem with Java applications.
Anything written in
Java takes forever to load, and boy am I sick of seeing
their stupid little
coffee cup for minutes at a time while waiting for a
weather map or some
business data site to open up.  When the evil Microsoft
empire had their own
J-script Java substitute in Windows, everything was fine
and Java apps ran
fine.  Since J-script was eliminated and I have to use
actual Java, Java apps
are glacial.
(snip) (snip)