On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:31:55AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > I general I try to avoid the C vs C++ and the C++ vs world arguments. > But let me make a brief comment: > My first PC (I had a couple of commodores before that... but that beside > the point) was an IBM XT 4.77Mhz with 64KB which was capable of doing > (peak performance) around 50-100,000 simple integer operations per > second. > My current home machine is a Dual AthlonXP 1900, with 1GB memory, 10K > SCSI and an nVidia GF4/4400. This machine, can roughly do 4-5x10^9 > simple integer operations per second. > In short, it's around 100,000 times faster. (Even more... a > current-level graphics cards is 10^9 times faster at throwing pixels > then my XT's CGA.) > > And you know what? My company's client software is written in Java... > and it's slower then anything I ever ran on my XT. Every single object > oriented based text editor I use (minus VI) runs much slower then my > XT's Wordstar... should I continue? Open office rings a bell?
Abiword? OpenOffice, AbiWord and Mozilla. Three cross-platform applications written in C++. All happen to have the Unix GUI based on GTK (not starting a QT vs. gtk fight here. I just mention it as a common thing). OOo and mozilla built a huge cross-platform framewrok. Abiword: to a much lesser extent. Oh, and there is also LyX, with the long-standing strugle for toolkit-independent GUI. Currently only has two X-based interfaces (xforms-based and QT-based) and a gtk-based in the works. No native win32 port yet. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
