The same thing happens on the 2GHz P4 I built 2 years ago. The slowness is
in the initial Java start-up, which takes under a minute usually, but on
some websites several minutes (really).
Booting of my pre-Cambrian laptop takes under a minute, which still matches
pretty well to most computers. I do start more crap than I'd prefer, but I
do control start-up apps and these are pretty much what I've settled on.
Actually, besides spending so much on kids' tuition and getting them new
computers, etc, I really haven't found it that necessary to have a faster
machine. I run Word and Excel lall day every day, along with snagging stuff
off various Internet data sites. The only time the computer itself is
maddeningly slow is when it's doing some dedicated thing like a defrag,
virus scan, etc., and that's pretty much scheduled for off-hours.
I tried downloading J-script a month or two ago, but ran into some snag -
don't remember what it was, but it just wasn't happening and I was short on
time so I quit trying.
As far as FireFart, BTDT. But not to be an old curmudgeon I just downloaded
and installed their latest version and tried it again. Java starts the same
way but a bit slower than IE, and FireFox itself starts significantly slower
than IE, which itself starts fairly quickly.
I still think it's Java. Like Adopey, they seem to hate PC's and want to
make everything they write run poorly on a PC so the user will blame the PC.
Oh well. If Java weren't such a hog I'd leave it running all the time.
Thanks!
Karl
> That's probably going to be the machine. :) Jscript
> is still available on
> the MS website and I think the
> current version is 5.6 and it is compatible
> with XP.
> I last checked a month ago.
> FWIW, I have an old 1.1ghz laptop that
> I use as a
> print server. When I boot it up to print something, I
> walk away
> and return about 10 mins later. If I use IE
> to get into webmail and that
> takes another 5-10 mins.
> You could probably experiment with a ram drive and
> send your temp directories to it, (like the java cache,
> and the windows temp
> directory.) When I did that on
> slower machines, it made a noticeable
> improvement
> in speed. Now, with machines as fast as they are,
> I have not
> been able to notice a significant improvement
> with those ram drives. You
> could also try a USB memory
> stick to accomplish the same thing, although you
> would
> have to wait until the usb drivers get loaded up.
> Brian
> battmain@yahoo.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Karl Vacek
> <kvacek@ameritech.net>
> To: shop-talk@autox.team.net
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12,
> 2008 3:27:38 PM
> Subject: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow
>
> OK, since we're on
> computers, I have a real problem with Java applications.
> Anything written in
> Java takes forever to load, and boy am I sick of seeing
> their stupid little
> coffee cup for minutes at a time while waiting for a
> weather map or some
> business data site to open up. When the evil Microsoft
> empire had their own
> J-script Java substitute in Windows, everything was fine
> and Java apps ran
> fine. Since J-script was eliminated and I have to use
> actual Java, Java apps
> are glacial.
> (snip) (snip)
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