On 12/12/06, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (2) is it really fast? I have found that java is annoyingly slow. > > Java has really slow startup time, which is really noticeable when it > halts Firefox. But you can expect applets to run prettty fast, once > they're running. > > Java in browsers *seriously* annoys me as well. In fact, it sort of > makes me cringe to think about Java applets in SAGE, as I *hate* sites > that have Java applets. On the other hand, I don't know if there's > much of an alternative.
This is just to provide a data point some may find useful. I also sit in the 'java annoys me' camp, but I have found examples of applets that do scientifically useful stuff in a reasonably portable manner with Java, and which to my knowledge simply can't be done any other way. I think this site can be used as a good tester for what SAGE could expect to impose on its users if it went with Java: http://phet.colorado.edu/web-pages/simulations-base.html These are physics applets, running out-of-browser, and can give a reasonable measure of startup times, portability, performance and complexity for things that do a fair amount of mathematics (though none does specifically 3d plotting). The physics in there is accurately computed, so the computational load isn't completely trivial. Cheers, f --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
