[rescue] IRIX Java experiences?

[Todd Killingsworth]

Well... yes the Sun4c's will run java ok.

But I haven't found anything suitable for a development environment,
speedwise.
On my SS10 running 2.9, it took 15-20 minutes for Forte to open.

Has anyone found a dev tool for java that has good user response on the
older suns?

And yes, I'm already aware of vi :)

Todd Kilingsworth

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Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [rescue] IRIX Java experiences?


On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 01:53:59AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   I would think that, based on what I saw on the Indigo2, it'd kick all
> sorts of ass on something like an Onyx or an Octane.

MIT's Media lab used to love running Java with some sort of custom
Java->OpenGL binding (and probably lots of other custom native code) on
large multiprocessor Onyx2s.  That is what they used for one of their
major actor based animation systems, I believe.

>   Solaris is an excellent platform for this stuff...I'd say the fastest
> I've seen, given enough memory.  It also seems to thread very well.

It does seem like that natural choice.  I found even Java on SS5s to be
rather good.

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Joshua D. Boyd