Linux on old laptop in two stages

[Kevin D. Clark]

A lot of the claims to the effect of "Java is much faster nowadays"
are based on the fact that typical Java implementations nowadays
include much better JIT (Just In Time) compilers.  Translating an
application's interpreted Java bytecode into native machine code can
yield some very large performance gains.

I'm not sure what the current state of the art is with Java *applets*
is, however.  I wouldn't be surprised if these things did not get run
through the JIT compiler.

It is also very possible that JVM's that run on Windows are more
efficient than those that you typically see under Linux -- this is
where most of the brainpower in this space is concentrated.

YMMV.

--kevin
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