[vdr] Re: VDR is obsolete

[Chris Newell <chris.newell@rd.bbc.co.uk>]

At 10:29 12/11/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Java on a 800MHz Via C3 processor? I shudder to think what the performance 
>would be like... and woe-betide anyone who tried to run any other processes 
>simultaneously :(

Gavin,

I've run Java applications on lighter platforms than this with adequate
performance. A vdr type GUI would spend most of the time doing nothing -
all the intensive processes would be done by the library APIs (which would
be implemented mostly in native code).

Chris

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