[SDL] Re: Java SDL Take two

[Andy Sy]

Yes, I'd be very interested in a Java port of SDL.
Why? Because while using SDL via PyGame makes me
want to shout in delight at the power and ease
of use of that mucho excellent language, I have
seen a vanilla Java graphics applet
(http://rsb.info.nih.gov/plasma/), without any
additional coding effort, take advantage
of dual CPUS to nearly double its performance
(I get 100% dual CPU utilization without slowing
down other stuff).  I would love to find out that
Python would be that amenable to multiprocessing
(specially because it has microthreads), but so
far all evidence points to the contrary.

Am I right in assuming though that such a Java
SDL port would have to be reimplemented on each
platform because it uses JNI (or other NIs)?


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goehrig" <dgoehrig at valinux.com>
Newsgroups: loki.open-source.sdl
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 8:22 AM
Subject: Java SDL Take two


> I hate GPG :(
>
> Anyways, as I'm not certain that last message got out, here is the gist of
> it.  I seem to remeber that someone was working on the SDL port to Java,
> inspired by my recent success at getting a minor SDL app done with
> the JNI bindings, after reading the docs this morning, I'd like to
> help.  If no one is really tackling it, I'd be happy to start development
> up.
>
> If you are working on it please contact me, and if not but are
> interesting in such a beast I'd also like you to contact me.
>
> It will be a nice break from writing ther perl port :)
>
"David Goehrig" <dgoehrig at valinux.com> wrote in message
news:20010317161837.B12362 at valinux.com...
> I hate GPG :(
>
> Anyways, as I'm not certain that last message got out, here is the gist of
> it.  I seem to remeber that someone was working on the SDL port to Java,
> inspired by my recent success at getting a minor SDL app done with
> the JNI bindings, after reading the docs this morning, I'd like to
> help.  If no one is really tackling it, I'd be happy to start development
> up.
>
> If you are working on it please contact me, and if not but are
> interesting in such a beast I'd also like you to contact me.
>
> It will be a nice break from writing ther perl port :)
>
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