RE[2]: [Java-gnome-developer] swing support

[Ian D. S. <ids...@co...>]

Jeffrey Morgan <Jef...@Br...> wrote:
> The Classpath project already has an effort underway
> to develop GTK peers for AWT.  I believe they are
> fairly complete.  Currently the focus of this project 
> is on producing Gnome 2 bindings.  
> 
> I believe the slow performance on swing has little to
> do with the AWT implementation.  It is my belief that it
> has to do with the fact that the widgets are rendering
> themselves and bypassing the native rendering facilities
> of the operating system.
> 

That, and Swing takes abstraction to the nth degree, which will always
be a performance killer, regardless of language or platform.


Ian

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