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    Is Win's Java better than Apple's?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by domyalex, Feb 1, 2008.

  1. domyalex

    domyalex Notebook Consultant

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    Hi to all,
    so, I'm running a huge process on my MBP (2.2) and decided that maybe having my wife's laptop help me wouldn't be such a bad idea and thus proceeded to share the computation load between my machine and her Insipiron 1520 (T7250, 2Gb RAM). Considering the lower specs I expected the Dell machine to take a noticeable longer time to produce comparable results, but it turns out it's taking around 25% the time my machine requires....!
    Note: it's exactly the same source code (compiled on my MBP). The major difference is that she has Java 6 (u3) while I'm (against my will) stuck with 5 (u13).
    iStat reports one of my cores at 80 to 100% (yeah, my fans have been running at 3,500 rpm for the last 48 hrs...), while Task Manager reports both of my wife's cores running around 50%, quite comfortably I might add...
    I'm a recent switcher so I take advantage of every chance to bash at Windows, but this time it's truly hard...
    The only explanation I have is that Sun's Java newest implementation is waaay better than Apple's...?

    Does anybody have a (better) explanation?.... c'mon, I love so much OS X, I *want* it to be better in every way! =P

    Regards

    PS: and yeah, while we are at it, any news of a Apple Java 6 final version...?
     
    domyalex, Feb 1, 2008
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