Re: [Jmol-users] Important Java changes - January 2014

[<sw...@pu...>]

Although Jsmol is impressive, far too often I get 'script taking too long'
messages from the browser, so although I believe the future of Jmol  
lies in Jsmol, I woul not like to lose the java applet at this time  
simply because of
supposed security threats...

Cheers

Simon

Quoting "Rzepa, Henry S" <h....@im...>:

>
> On 6 Nov 2013, at 09:20, Nina Jeliazkova <jel...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>
>> JavaScript is pretty much catching up in speed and ubiquity. Many  
>> benchmarks point in this direction
>>   
>> http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=v8&lang2=java&data=u64
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Nina
>>
>
> I had estimated  that Javascript might be eg  15 times slower, but  
> the above indicates about  7 (worst case).  However, it does not  
> list floating point operations, which I think are what matter to us?
>