[news.eclipse.dsdp.ercp] Re: eRCP evaluation for graphics

[Barry Andrews <bandrews@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply!

Is that an official statement about OpenGL ES? :)

thanks,

B

Gorkem Ercan wrote:
> I do not have any numbers that I can publish for performance comparison. 
> However, the performance of the UI components should be comparable with 
> the native components. Our aim with the GC and custom drawing on S60 was 
> to perform enough for custom widgets and business graphics. Although we 
> did bit better than that, I think we still have room to improve. In 
> means of memory, eSWT is not that much different than any other Java 
> application. However, eSWT has some big components like Browser that 
> will naturally have larger memory consumption.
>
> > Is there any work being done to support OpenGL ES in eSWT?
>     Not currently, but I think OpenGL can be the next logical step to 
> support in eSWT.
>
> --
> Gorkem
>
>
> Barry Andrews wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am evaluating several frameworks for a new mobile application that 
> > will involve some 3D graphics. eRCP looks pretty interesting as far as 
> > quick development time and good deployment to multiple platforms. I 
> > really like the fact that the classes are the same as SWT, just 
> > different underlying implementation. So in theory, I could run the app 
> > on the desktop without too many mods. Really cool!
> >
> > Is there any work being done to support OpenGL ES in eSWT? OpenGL is 
> > supported in SWT currently. Also, is there any performance comparisons 
> > of eRCP against a native C++ app ( specifically for S60 )? I 
> > understand startup times will be slower no doubt, but what about UI 
> > responsiveness and general overall performance? What about memory 
> > usage comparisons?
> >
> > Many thanks for a discussion!
> >
> > -B