"retard" <r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote in message news:i4mrss$ca...@digitalmars.com... > Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:04:41 +0200, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > >> What are these Java programs for the desktop that run fast? I haven't >> encountered any, but maybe that's just because I didn't try them all >> out. Eclipse takes at least 20 seconds to load on startup on my quad >> core, that's not very fast. On the other hand, CodeBlocks which is coded >> in C++ and has a few dozen plugins installed runs in an instant. > > Now that's a fair comparison! "Crysis runs so slowly but a hello world > written in Go is SO fast. This must prove that Go is much faster than C+ > +!" > > I think CodeBlocks is one of the most lightweight IDEs out there. Does it > even have full semantic autocompletion? Eclipse, on the other hand, comes > with almost everything you can imagine. If you turn off the syntax check, > Eclipse works just as fast as any native application on a modern desktop.
I've tried eclipse with the fancy stuff off, and it's still slower than C::B or PN2 for me.