Bill Glidden wrote:
>
> Talk amongst yourself… I’ll give you a topic:
>
> Suppose you were tasked with developing a Linux-based application that
> needs a very snappy, very responsive GUI front-end. What would you use
> to build this GUI and why? By responsive, I mean that if I click on a
> button, I need to redraw at least half of the screen within 1 second.
> More specifically this would be a kiosk application. The objective is
> to present information as fast as possible to the user. I’m showing my
> age here, but I still miss the days when I would do DOS programming
> and just write to video memory. That was **fast**! That’s the kind of
> speed I’m looking for.
>
> Discuss!
>
> Thanks for any opinions.
>
Java...on a quad-core 3.6GHz machine. :-)
--ronan
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