> The GC just wasn't that good yet. Also last-minute loading and verification of classes. Interpretation overhead and JIT compilation wouldn't help either, esp

> The GC just wasn't that good yet. Also last-minute loading and verification of classes. Interpretation overhead and JIT compilation wouldn't help either, especially on a single-core machine. Many aspects of Java make more sense for servers than for desktop UIs. (This might finally be changing, with recent progress on ahead-of-time compilation of Java without requiring an obscure proprietary JVM.)