Re: Flags (when to implement)

[Nafees B. Z. <bin...@mu...>]

I think if the move to java is made, there ought to be a code fork....  I
really don't think it'll happen though :)

-n

Kenneth Gordon wrote:

> fo...@vi... wrote:
>
> > Jeremiah Moss wrote:
> >
> > > > > Excellent idea, now all we have to do is to convince everybody to
> > > > get
> > > > > a Java3D interpeter, and all of the developers to get a Java
> > > > > compiler.
> > > >
> > > > not hard
> > >
> > > Convincing the general public, or convincing the programmers?
> >
> > Most windows machine have a Java Runtime Environment. Otherwise, we
> > could point to the download pages. As for the programmers, well...
>
> The JRE isn't the problem.  Java3D is not a part of the base JRE and needs
> to be downloaded separately.  So even with the newest JRE, everyone would
> still need to download the Java3D extensions.  Anyone know if we could
> package the Java3D jar files with the application???
>
> One other potential problem with going to Java3D is its performance on
> SGI's is horrible!  We did some benchmarks a while back, and our O2's
> scored the lowest of any machine.  Our ONYX2 was only marginally better
> than some PC's for Java3D!!  Until SGI puts in some effort to correct this
> problem, I'm not sure you'll get satisfactory performance on an SGI.  Then
> again, it's possible that our machine is screwed up.  Anyone else try out
> J3D on an SGI?
>
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