Re: random question...

Karl J. Runge (runge@redhook.llnl.gov)
Thu, 10 Apr 97 02:46:06 PDT

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, "M. Heroux" <mheroux@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> This may have quite a basic answer.. but why doesnt somebody write a
> client in Java? That way anybody (theoretically) could run it.
>
> Does the java spec not allow for this type of communication?

It might work, but each client would be very slow. Maybe 100+ times
slower is my guess. (no assembler in java & java is slow in general)

Also might be hard to keep the priority low, JVM might hog the CPU.

Reasonable if you could get 100+ times more machines (running long times)
to make up the difference. Hard to guess which way it would go, boom
or bust since depends on psychological factors.

Best,

Karl

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