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<blockquote data-quote="merton_monk" data-source="post: 542619" data-attributes="member: 4361"><p>PCGen is no longer slow. Anyone who says java is slow because it's java, hasn't dealt with it much lately. Java 1.3 and especially 1.4 is really quite fast and has come a long way since it's birth. Java will never equal or surpass C++ or similar compiled-to-machine-code languages for sheer speed, but for generating a character the difference between the two is negligible. The mantra "java is slow" might have been on target 4-5 years ago, but now it's simply not true. </p><p></p><p>Any version of PCGen beyond 4.1.2 is about 100 times faster than it was before (the technical term for that is 'zillions') - if you gave up on PCGen because it was slow, give it another look. <a href="http://pcgen.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">http://pcgen.sourceforge.net</a> is where to get it. The problem with the speed wasn't java, it was because of some non-optimized code trying to recalculate bonuses way too many times. Once that bottleneck was removed, it was full speed ahead. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> </p><p></p><p>The GUI has pretty much settled down now, so it's fairly coherent and the documentation is being actively kept up to date. We have Documentation Monkeys (Doc Monkeys for short) who take it as a matter of pride to make sure it stays that way, and they get to take the bananas away from the Code Monkeys who 'forget' to tell them about some new feature that needed adding to the documentation.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p>Bryan McRoberts</p><p>Code Monkey Publishing, Co-Founder</p><p>Benevolent Dictator of PCGen</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="merton_monk, post: 542619, member: 4361"] PCGen is no longer slow. Anyone who says java is slow because it's java, hasn't dealt with it much lately. Java 1.3 and especially 1.4 is really quite fast and has come a long way since it's birth. Java will never equal or surpass C++ or similar compiled-to-machine-code languages for sheer speed, but for generating a character the difference between the two is negligible. The mantra "java is slow" might have been on target 4-5 years ago, but now it's simply not true. Any version of PCGen beyond 4.1.2 is about 100 times faster than it was before (the technical term for that is 'zillions') - if you gave up on PCGen because it was slow, give it another look. [url]http://pcgen.sourceforge.net[/url] is where to get it. The problem with the speed wasn't java, it was because of some non-optimized code trying to recalculate bonuses way too many times. Once that bottleneck was removed, it was full speed ahead. :cool: The GUI has pretty much settled down now, so it's fairly coherent and the documentation is being actively kept up to date. We have Documentation Monkeys (Doc Monkeys for short) who take it as a matter of pride to make sure it stays that way, and they get to take the bananas away from the Code Monkeys who 'forget' to tell them about some new feature that needed adding to the documentation. :D Bryan McRoberts Code Monkey Publishing, Co-Founder Benevolent Dictator of PCGen [/QUOTE]
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