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"Then the client was clunky and slow, nothing else on the web felt as slow even with such little graphical sparkle. It was basically a side-by-side email client
by leoc 13y ago
"Then the client was clunky and slow, nothing else on the web felt as slow even with such little graphical sparkle. It was basically a side-by-side email client by look, yet acted like it was folding proteins or mining bitcoin in some worker thread."
It seemed to be a heavy user of memory iirc?
- bane 13y agoIIR it all written in Java then compiled to Javascript, I think using an old version of GWT. I was not a good showpiece for the technology. It was like stepping back in time to the early Java days with a pre-JIT JVM and slow computers.