All the research work was programmed in the JAVA programming language developed by Sun microsystems.  The test runs were performed using the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) with the most recent version (1.1.4) of the Just In Time Compiler (JIT).  The JIT compiler runs about 3 times slower than C++ code.  Therefore the time constraint issues we encountered would not have been helped much by the use of C code since our code sets were expanding rates higher than 3x.

     The hardware used was a Pentium 100 notebook computer with 24 meg of RAM.