It's probably not java (as in the java VM on the machine), but javascript in
the browser.  I have noticed that firefox's javascript is noticably slower
on linux than on windows (both 64-bit and 32).  Check out for example
digg.com (a site that makes extensive use of javascript).  There is a
noticeable performance difference.

... HH

On 12/29/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> posted
> 5bdc1c8b0612291445h1c927ecag3cfdf19f134a6e28@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
> below, on  Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:45:37 -0800:
>
> >    Note that if this was just Flash on the front page it would be no
> > big deal. However I think there may be additional issues around the
> speed
> > of Java once you log in and get inside the web site. That is what really
> > matters and it's very slow on this machine.
>
> What Java are you using?  When I switched to Gentoo I decided I didn't
> need Java enough to override its being proprietary, so I don't have it
> installed here and haven't had it installed on Gentoo at all.  However,
> back on Mandrake, I noticed Java was /dreadfully/ slow at times on Linux.
> IIRC, I was using kaffe JVM at that time and attributed it to that, but I
> was trying to run broadbandreports.com's Java based speedtest applet, and
> it was simply too slow executing to produce anything even /close/ to
> reliable results.
>
> So it may be the JVM or something Java related, rather than flash or
> whatever.
>
> Happily, now that Sun is GPLing Java, I should be able to merge a decent
> and freedom software based Java one of these days. I'm looking forward
> to it!  =8^)
>
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