java applets dead slow to load

[Matthew Flaschen]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> That seems excessive, but I don't think "open sourcing" can be related to
> the problem.  The actual Sun JRE didn't change (and I don't think they
> _have_ actually opensourced, yet, just promised to do it).

They have now (mostly), but it hasn't been packaged yet.  The default
version is GCJ/Classpath, an independent GPL implementation.

Matt Flaschen