Michael Morett wrote:
> My machine is a Pentium II with 512MB memory running 1JDK .4._01 and W2K.
>
> Let me try to rephrase my thoughts since I sense I might be misinterpreted.
>
> With IDEA up and running, it should never pause when I start typing or
> scrolling up and down the page. It really is that simple. That is my main
> concern. I am not talking about pausing to perform an autocomplete of
> syntax. I just dont know what IDEA is "thinking about" when I start typing.
> I haven't asked it to do anything. I am just trying to type.
If you are typing Java code, I belive there are all kinds of things
going on "under the hood". A code structure representation is kept
continually updated while you type, and stuff like that.
> This might be attributed to Swing. I am not placing blame on the
> programmers at IntelliJ. I am just making an observation. And venting
> frustration when I see a 3 second delay upon pressing the backspace key.
Some of it probably Intellij functionality. A whole other thing is the
garbage collection thing. I've seen problems with that on large server
applications also.
The best thing to do about that is to make sure to have enough memory to
fit the application in it. Virtual memory on disk is really just an
illusion, and performs much worse in Java than other "conventional"
applications. This is of course because every time the garbage collector
runs it needs to wap in the objects that *may* be candidates for collection.
-dennis
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