FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Jan 31 21:44:38 UTC 2005


Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:29 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>>
>>>James Mckenzie wrote:
>>>
>>>>James McKenzie
>>>>A Proud User of Linux!
>>>
>>>What will it take for Sun to really look into their Linux (and Solaris 
>>>for that matter) JavaVM. Currently the best performing JavaVM is the one 
>>>for Microsoft systems and it is not even written by Sun!! (the Microsft 
>>>JavaVM)
> 
> 
> What do you men "best performing"?.  speed?, quality?, features?, or
> exactly what are you defining this as?
> 
> I don't use anything but the Sun VM so I can't compare. However, I am
> very satisfied with what I get.
> 
> 
>>But it isn't to the Java Standard.  MS lost the court battle over this 
>>one.
> 
> 
> IIRC, not only did M$ lose the battle about code rights, they have
> deviated greatly from the java standards.  Thus any code written to use
> their vm and it's features is likely to fail to function correctly on a
> vm that complies with the standards.
> 
> The best bet is to use the JRE package from Sun and be certain that all
> the code it runs is compliant with standards.  Any java programs that do
> not work with the Sun vm are likely not standards compliant.
> 
> 

As all those Web designers are starting to find out that based their 
designs on the MS VM, now that it isn't being shipped with Windows.  I 
have come across a few sites that are this way.

-- 
Robin Laing




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