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Story: Sun starts Java promotion drive

Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 23 May 2005, 7:59 PM)

Today my PC badly 'hung'. Then recovered - after worrying me badly! There is only one bit of software that will and has done anything that bad - the Sun Java Client when used with Firefox.
OK, It could be the website in question, but when all that site is actually displaying in Java is a news tickertape, then I believe it's the coding of the Sun software.
First of all, it's a massive download for what it's supposed to do. Secondly, the system 'hangs' (has no response and even affects mouse movement - utterly overloading the PC), which only happens for the 30 seconds (!) that it takes to load in the Java client. Then the system is back to being very fluid as with all the other software...
What an atrocious resource-hog! I configure my system properly (it will play smoothly up to medium-complexity 3D games), but using Java right now feels like getting out of a Ferrari and into a Fiat. A lot of CPU effort for very little essential functionality.
If it kills my desktop PC, how can they can get it to run smoothly on a mobile phone?!