[Xastir-dev] Topic: Supported Platforms, Xastir-NG

[Gerry Creager]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
> 
>> Java, Ruby, Python, et al, seem to me to be rather heavy in terms of
>> system requirements good performance.  Is this true?  My knee-jerk
>> reaction is that the smaller devices (handhelds, old 486 computers,
>> etc) would be strained by the resource requirements for such a system.
> 
> I think Java ME is designed to support smaller devices.  Java SE and
> Java EE are definitely for larger machines.
> 
> 
>> The (limited, anecdotal) experience I have with applications
>> implemented in these languages make me think they'd run faster if
>> written in C/C++.
> 
> There are native-code compilers for Java that compile down to each
> machines assembly.  Instead of byte-codes and a run-time
> interpreter, you have native-code.
> 
> For the extreme small end, like 68HC11's, PIC's, AVR's, etc, I've
> seen it stated time and time again that writing code in C++ is
> foolhardy as the library size will kill you.  In that case C is the
> way to go.  Not that this size of processor is anything like what
> we'll be targeting with Xastir!  hi hi

This will be a user-interface issue, and we can let the interested 
parties do that code.  We have to make the interface specifications to 
the daemon clean, and come up with a small-device transmit/receive plan.
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