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A bittorrent client is a cpu-intensive application... why would I want to use a java application for this?!

by naoqj 5y ago

dgellow 5y ago
Could it be that only the UI is in Java? I’m on mobile, I did not check sources, but that would be reasonable.
- chockchocschoir 5y ago
  It's mostly Java, GitHub reports 99.1% of the source is Java, with tiny sprinkles of C++ (0.5%), C (0.2%), Objective-C++ (0.1%) and Objective-C (0.1%).
chockchocschoir 5y ago
You're missing the second half of your reasoning here. Why would Java applications be unsuitable for something CPU intensive? It matters more how you build your program than what technology you use, as long as you use the right data structures and algorithms, Java is as suitable for CPU intensive tasks as any other language. For what it's worth, a BitTorrent client will (usually) be more limited by network and disk I/O than by your CPU, as those tend to be the bottleneck when it comes to transferring large amount of data/large amount of small packets (DHT).
- toyg 5y ago
  One of the best ever BT clients was Azureus (later Vuze), and it was indeed a Java app. It hammered the disk like it was nobody else's business.
  - stuaxo 5y ago
    The great thing with Azureus is if you could download bits of content somewhere else you could copy them in and it would take that into account. This was quite handy for a big torrent of music videos back in the day with not enough seeders.
  - timothylaurent 5y ago
    Bigly is actually a vuze fork
  - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
    I remember back in Kazaa/LimeWire/WinMX day, Azureus was a powerful beastly BT client. It is a massive beast that took my computer to fully load Azureus in 10 minutes. And that was the only powerful BT client at the time and people hate it because it is powerful but it is CPU intensive. BitComet, BitLord, FlashGet couldn't hold a candle against Azureus. Until qBittorrent, uTorrent and Transmission popped up few years after Azureus initial release. What a time to be alive back then.

A bittorrent client is a cpu-intensive application... why would I want to use a java application for this?!

by naoqj 5y ago

A bittorrent client is a cpu-intensive application... why would I want to use a java application for this?!

dgellow 5y ago

Could it be that only the UI is in Java? I’m on mobile, I did not check sources, but that would be reasonable.

chockchocschoir 5y ago
It's mostly Java, GitHub reports 99.1% of the source is Java, with tiny sprinkles of C++ (0.5%), C (0.2%), Objective-C++ (0.1%) and Objective-C (0.1%).

chockchocschoir 5y ago

You're missing the second half of your reasoning here. Why would Java applications be unsuitable for something CPU intensive? It matters more how you build your program than what technology you use, as long as you use the right data structures and algorithms, Java is as suitable for CPU intensive tasks as any other language. For what it's worth, a BitTorrent client will (usually) be more limited by network and disk I/O than by your CPU, as those tend to be the bottleneck when it comes to transferring large amount of data/large amount of small packets (DHT).

toyg 5y ago
One of the best ever BT clients was Azureus (later Vuze), and it was indeed a Java app. It hammered the disk like it was nobody else's business.
- stuaxo 5y ago
  The great thing with Azureus is if you could download bits of content somewhere else you could copy them in and it would take that into account. This was quite handy for a big torrent of music videos back in the day with not enough seeders.
- timothylaurent 5y ago
  Bigly is actually a vuze fork
- Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
  I remember back in Kazaa/LimeWire/WinMX day, Azureus was a powerful beastly BT client. It is a massive beast that took my computer to fully load Azureus in 10 minutes. And that was the only powerful BT client at the time and people hate it because it is powerful but it is CPU intensive. BitComet, BitLord, FlashGet couldn't hold a candle against Azureus. Until qBittorrent, uTorrent and Transmission popped up few years after Azureus initial release. What a time to be alive back then.