Re: V.6.0.2 gripes...
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- Subject: [mg86700] Re: V.6.0.2 gripes...
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:22:13 -0500 (EST)
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alexxx.magni at gmail.com wrote: > Murray Eisenberg ha scritto: > >> My experience with the Documentation Center in 6.0 and 6.0.1 is that the >> first call to it is slow, but that after that things are faster at a >> given session. >> >> so could the problem be the initial loading of the Java interpreter, or >> some other Java-related initialization, and not just initializing the >> window per se? >> >> Then of course there's the issue of how else to handle this. One option >> is to write everything in a platform-dependent way and avoid a >> cross-platform tool such as Java entirely. But that has its >> down-side,too: increased time to program it, higher cost,.... >> > > > I see of course the need to keep things simple when a project is > dealing with multiple platforms - although I imagine that a > development firm as big as Wolfram should be capable of handling it. > > Yet this argument doesnt convince me that Java was a good answer: what > is more platform independent, for example, of a well written HTML > documentation? Or, simply, the use of Mathematica notebooks without > Java - as in the good old days? > > No, the huge slowness that many people experience (not everybody, I > admit) is a faux pas. > Java can be better than in the old days, as David Bailey says, but it > still contains too many unresolved speed issues if 2GHz machines are > crawling when simply reading documentation. > > What about an option to turn it off at least in the docs, losing some > (unneeded) interactivity? > > > Alessandro > > > > >> alexxx.magni at gmail.com wrote: >>> It is just me, or the handling by Java of the new Function Navigator / >>> Virtual Book is terrible? It needs a huge time to init the window, and >>> its reponse time is awful, even worse than the Doc Center. >>> >>> It's an old and tiring camplain, but could people stop writing stuff >>> in Java, since all they obtain is to slow our PCs to a crawl??? >>> >>> Alessandro >>> >> -- >> Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu >> Mathematics & Statistics Dept. >> Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) >> University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) >> 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 >> Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > I think we all agree that there should be absolutely no noticeable delay when bringing up a page of documentation - I hope WRI are listening! Note that Java is not used to actually display the documentation - it appears in a notebook. HTML documentation would be greatly inferior however, because you could not actually execute documentation cells (possibly with changes). I suspect WRI have bought in some Java search component that is too inefficient - hopefully they will re-code it in a faster form, possibly inside Mathematica, in C. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
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