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Jeff McNulty

Has ATI improved the CCC or is it still bloatware? When the 5.6 driver is
released I was wondering if its worth installing the CCC.
 
The CCC is bloated *by its nature*, because it uses the .NET framework.
However, just like Java applicaitons, someday our comps will be fast enough
that the performance impact will not be noticeable.
 
First said:
The CCC is bloated *by its nature*, because it uses the .NET framework.
However, just like Java applicaitons, someday our comps will be fast enough
that the performance impact will not be noticeable.
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Java desktop applications have been fast since the days of swing. A lot
of development environments (like Eclipse/JBuilder etc.) are written in
Java and run just as fast as other applications. Java server software is
hugely prevalent and is used in many areas.

Java *applets* give a slightly incorrect view of the speed of Java
software, but even those run quite fast these days.
 
ofn01 said:
Java desktop applications have been fast since the days of swing. A lot of
development environments (like Eclipse/JBuilder etc.) are written in Java
and run just as fast as other applications. Java server software is hugely
prevalent and is used in many areas.
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By nature of the way Java code is compiled/interpreted and run, Java
applications won't be as fast as, say, C++. Nowadays Java applications are
not "noticeably slower", because of

- improved compilers
- faster hardware
- the bottleneck being elsewhere, like disk access, network speed, etc.

In any case, it took Java some time to reach current levels of performance.
It definitely hasn't been fast "since the days of swing". The point I was
trying to make: it will take a similar amount of time before CCC become as
fast as the ordinary control panel, at least perceptually.
 
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