Frederik and Kunaak-
This isn't an issue about people being upset over extra stuff to install. It's a question of which language will work best to create a taxing benchmark. Java is inherently too inefficient to be optimal for the task at hand. This current version fails to even stress the CPU 100% at realtime. (Check task manager) Java is bloated and a little clunky with memory allocation. It has a lot of nice uses, but IMHO, it is less than optimal to be used in such an application. I too feel that C/C++ would be better choices, with seperate versions compiled for Windows, Linux and MacOS. The loss of portability is unfortunate, but I highly doubt that even a Java version would result in identical performance across all operating systems given the same hardware.
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