> I'd sure like to see this - But java doesn't have the GUI support
> IDE's
> that other platforms do, which would make many things (like the
> hierarchical breakdowns) possible. I'll certainly suggest it to the
> developers however.
Well, as with all tools, there are advantages and disadvantages. The
two big advantages are that it will run on multiple platforms and it
will appear and perform the same way on all platforms. The
disadvantages (as I see them) are a GUI that does not completely
conform to the standards for that platform (Windows and Mac being big
on "appearance"), and some reduction in performance. (Oh, and the NRE
of moving to the new platform. That is a total-loss proposition.)
Back when I had to pick a platform to build our app on we did some
testing to see how well the Java JIT JRE performed compared to the
same code written in GCC on both Intel and Sun SPARC. We were quite
surprised to find that Java was, on average, running at about 70% of
the speed of GCC emitting native code for the target platform.
Brian Lloyd
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