I also allocate a good lot of memory to my IDE (NB & IntelliJ both), and have the same experience. That said, there are still times I have to kill NB due to the CPU taking off and indexing too much. I think many of the finds which came out of the ticket I saw Lazlo working on will be some great improvements; I’d seen similar.
Wade > On Mar 8, 2019, at 12:53 PM, Lars Bruun-Hansen <lbruunhan...@gmail.com> 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. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
