Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:02:04 -0400, Eric Poggel wrote: > On 10/12/2010 10:22 PM, Michael Stover wrote: >> Why would I laugh? > > A lot of people say eclipse is slow and bloated. Maybe it is, but it > has a lot of killer features.
We already discussed this a week or two ago. Eclipse *with useless plugins disabled* works rather quickly on *modern* machines. That means, on Sun Java 6/7 JVM and Eclipse 3.6. SWT performance depends on your graphics drivers and also the SWT's libraries are improving constantly. The JVM can make use of multiple cores (e.g. parallel garbage collection) and over 1 GB of memory (remember to tune your jvm settings)! You can also improve the slow startup times with a disk cache and/or raid-0 setup and/or ssd disks. Surprising, eh?!