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Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics we discussed

This is an opinion from someone who has worked extensively in both Java and C++....if the application requires high performance(say auto routing, hint, hint) Java will be a factor of 3-5X slower than C++. And it will be a memory pig, on most JVMs the "Hello World" app will consume 10MB+ just on it's own. An app the size of PCB will likely consume 60-100MB. And when the garbage collection kicks in at seemingly random times...look out.

Java would just be a bad solution all around for PCB, not to mention the extensive rewrite to an existing functional codebase.

Suggest finding a cross platform toolkit. Also suggest finding something so that it can easily be compiled/installed on Windows. The only reason I keep a Linux box around here is to run gSchem and PCB. I know, I've installed PCB on my Windows box here with Cygwin,X11, etc. But most users don't or can't go to those type of pains.


From: Bob Paddock <bob.paddock@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics we discussed
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:03:29 -0400

On Monday 19 September 2005 05:57 pm, Olgierd Eysymontt wrote:
> Why use a native toolkit ? why not use Java, works great,

That has not been my experience with Java. I just hate the thoughts
of dealing with anything involving Java. Also Java is a language not a tool
kit.

> it's fast and
> easy to mantain (lots more than c or c++), runs not only in Linux and
> Windows but all platforms and it's very easy to create complex
> interfaces.

Exactly.  No one wants complex interfaces, we want ease of use.