Re: Why are Swing applica

From	"Lew" <lew@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: Why are Swing applica
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Date	2011-04-27 15:50 +0000
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Qu0ll wrote:
> I can only really relate my experiences on Windows machines but I have 
> noticed that even the most trivial of Swing applications tends to be 
> much "sleepier" than a full-blown SWT application such as Eclipse (or 
> native application for that matter).  By "sleepier" I refer to their 
> habit of requiring several seconds of blank screen and ferocious disk 
> activity to respond after having been minimised for a fair length of time.
> 
> I thought this problem was going to be fixed in Java 6 but it is still 
> very prevalent in Update 10.  Anyway, the point is why do Swing 
> applications suffer much more than large SWT applications?  Is it just 
> because Swing is so complex/bulky?  I would have thought that JEE 
> Eclipse was equally as bulky and complex.

Evidence absent.

I just minimized a fairly sizable Java Swing program, running on Linux Ubuntu 
8.04 under J6u10, and un-minimized it again after about a half hour.  It came 
up faster than I can blink, perceptually instantaneously, with no discernible 
disk activity.

Must not be Java.

-- 
Lew

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Why are Swing application "Qu0ll" <qu0ll@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:50 +0000
  Re: Why are Swing applica "Lew" <lew@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:50 +0000
    Re: Why are Swing applica "Qu0ll" <qu0ll@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:50 +0000
  Re: Why are Swing applica "Stefan Rybacki" <stefan.rybacki@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:50 +0000
    Re: Why are Swing applica "Qu0ll" <qu0ll@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:50 +0000
  Re: Why are Swing applica "Nigel Wade" <nigel.wade@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:50 +0000
    Re: Why are Swing applica "Qu0ll" <qu0ll@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:50 +0000
  Re: Why are Swing applica "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:51 +0000
    Re: Why are Swing applica "Karsten Lentzsch" <karsten.lentzsch@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:51 +0000
      Re: Why are Swing applica "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:51 +0000
  Re: Why are Swing applica "Karsten Lentzsch" <karsten.lentzsch@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:51 +0000
  Re: Why are Swing applica "Daniel Pitts" <daniel.pitts@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:51 +0000

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