Do the later JDKs now automatically choose a good value or behave more automatic (can increase at runtime or something)? Before they did not; the defaults differed between platforms, and were not very high, so the only way to get them was to set them. I wasn’t sure what you meant by “removed”, so wanted to be sure.
Thanks, Wade > On Mar 8, 2019, at 12:59 PM, Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Just FYI: In NetBeans 11.0 we have removed the restrictive memory settings. > > On 3/8/19 9:53 AM, Lars Bruun-Hansen wrote: >> Regarding performance: In my experience part of the problem has been >> (historically) that the default -Xmx setting for NB IDE has simply been too >> low. People just don't go to etc/netbeans.conf on their own and change it. >> Anyway, when you compare the two IDEs remember to make sure they have been >> allocated exactly the same amount of memory. Do *not* compare >> out-of-the-box (no tweaking) performance. In short: Once I learned that I >> should always allocate memory handsomely to NB IDE I've never experienced >> problems with performance. I can't remember that I've had 50 projects open >> at the same time, but something like 40 for sure. No probs. >> >> This is not to say that NB IDE can't be improved in the performance area. >> Above is just my personal/anecdotal experience. >> >> /Lars >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 5:08 PM Jean-Marc Borer <jmbo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> In the office we were comparing Netbeans to IntelliJ indexing performances >>> and I have to admit that IntelliJ performs very well here (I was >>> impressed). We had about 50 maven projects open at the same time. I wonder >>> how IntelliJ reaches such performances. >>> >>> Another thing that could be improved in NB would be that when you look for >>> symbols (CTRL+o), it should also propose file names. This is useful when >>> you have config files or other assets in your project(s) that are not only >>> contain code. Does this feature already exist in NB? >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists