Java 1.3 on Windows 95 with Proton as the editor could be another option for next #AdventOfCode.
Win95 runs pretty smoothly on my old box (no surprise, that box came with Win95) and I like Java, so … why not …
Not sure about the speed, though. 🥴
ALT
Okay, this is looking good.
I took my #AdventOfCode solutions from 2024, which I wrote for IBM Java 1 on OS/2 Warp 4, and gave them a try on Sun Java 1.3 on Windows 95. The build times feel a bit slower (I haven’t measured them, though) but the actual runtimes are a lot faster. 😲
That’s at least a factor of 2-3, sometimes more. The difference on day16/1 is huge – I remember that this day was very memory intensive and IBM Java’s garbage collection was struggling.
(And yes, that is LibreOffice Calc, because I, too, sometimes can’t be bothered.)
ALT
@movq Was there a Java 1.0 on OS/2? I only remember 1.1 and 1.3..?
Replying to @ltning@anduin.net
@ltning This is what was included in my Warp 4: 1.0.1. I took that to be “1.0”. 🤔🤷♀️
ALT
@movq Did you test with 1.3? I seem to remember it was a massive improvement over the earlier versions.. (Also warms my heart to see this :)