[Ubuntu Chicago] GUI frontend for python backend

Richard A. Johnson nixternal at kubuntu.org
Thu Nov 29 13:32:58 GMT 2007


On Thursday 29 November 2007, Max Luebbe wrote:
| Since when did python become orders of magnitude faster than java?
| Python's interpreted and Java uses a just-in-time compiler. Depending on
| how you cook your benchmarks, they're going to be pretty equal with
| regards to performance.

yay! someone on my side for once when it comes to java :)

| If you're doing cross platform and need a gui, java really is the best
| way to go because it has no dependencies other than the runtime
| environment...wasn't this 'cross platform thing' the entire selling
| point of java...?

That it was and still is. But you know these Ubuntu people and their python :)

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Richard A. Johnson
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