On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:45:50 am walt wrote: > The 'infrastructure' I keep referring to has to do only with the > GUI interface of pan. The critical parts that you (Charles) have > spent so much effort in optimizing for speed and memory use, are > all in c++, am I right? > > So -- why not implement the pan GUI in java and let each platform > deal with the optimized c++ part in its own way (already done)?
Please no. Pan is nice and snappy and responsive, and works reasonably well even in relatively low-end machines with not a lot of memory. The last thing we want is to pair a fast, snappy engine with a UI that takes forever to start up, looks hideous, requires vast amounts of memory, and ends up clomping around with lead boots squashing everything in it's path. Separation of the back-end from the front-end is a perfectly sensible idea. It's only the use of Java as the default front-end which I object to. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
