On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:39, JeremyP <jeremyp_at_jeremyp.net> wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2009, at 17:31, David Weintraub wrote:
>
>>
>> I also think Microsoft designed Windows so programs like Java would
>> run poorly. That way, the could mitigate the threat Java caused on
>> their desktop monopoly.
>
> This is off topic, but I'm intrigued as to how you think that
> Microsoft could have designed an operating system that could recognise
> a particular class of program and sabotage its performance. If Java
> runs poorly on Windows compared to other programs, it's because the
> design of the Java VM is bad (at least in the the context of the
> Windows environment).
For some reason, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to recall MS
getting caught doing exactly that - having an OS (it may have been as
far back as DOS) which intentionally ran certain programs slower than
the competing MS applications. I tried a few searches but didn't find
anything, so I could be misremembering.
Java I/O (or at least Tomcat's) does seem ludicrously slow on Windows
vs. other OSes. I always assumed it was Java not being optimized for
it on the platform, but why Sun would allow that when they're
constantly fighting the "Java is slow" perception is beyond me.
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