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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taurendil" data-source="post: 3259845" data-attributes="member: 11892">I do care that it's cross-platform since I use windows less and less. That being said, I don't think Java's to blame for the speed issues. Having looked at the source for pcgen, it's main problem seems to be it's domain model with lots of data being needlessly copied and passed around and too many classes inheriting from one class. This means that something like a language object can be assigned follower objects and that makes a language object bloated. I think another problem might be that it loads to many data at startup, even if it never gets used. It maight benefit from some form of lazy loading, but I guess that it would need a db backend for that.Java certainly isn't the fastest language out there but refactoring the program could do a lot to alleviate the speed issues. So I wouldn't throw out the cross-platform-ness of pcgen.I don't have anything to do with pcgen (I just use it in my campaign and had a look at the source), but I'm guessing some of the developers are working towards a beter domain model, some documents on the wiki seem to suggest that much.</blockquote>