[Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow

[Pat]

It took my machine on a 3 Meg wisp 45 seconds to come up from the time I 
clicked your link. Xp SP2, AMD Sempron processor, 1.6 GHz, 768 MB ram, 
59 processes running.


Peace,
Pat

Thusly spake Karl Vacek:
> Here's the NWS site I visit whenever I want real-time local radar.  Once 
> it's running, downloading new maps for a different area, different view, 
> etc., still takes some time, particularly when looping beacuse it's 
> downloading lots of images (I have 6 Meg DSL, by the way), but what I'm 
> complaining about is the initial start-up when I see the Java coffee cup 
> logo for a half a minute or more.
>
> http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=LOT&loop=yes
>
>
>   
>>> I still think it's Java.  Like Adopey, they seem to hate PC's and want to
>>> make everything they write run poorly on a PC so the user will blame the 
>>> PC.
>>>
>>>       
>> When you start a java applet that's on a website, you have to down
>> load the applet.  If it's big, that can take some time, if you or they
>> have a slow or overloaded network connection.
>>
>> Are any of these on public sites that you can tell us what you're doing?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> David Scheidt
>> dmscheidt at gmail.com
>>     
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