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Qian Qiao wrote: |> Hi, I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse |> with 256meg of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete |> dog. Has anyone got any experience with this? Cheers Antoine | | The problem isn't how many megs you memory you have, is how many megs | of memory you allow your jvm to use. Google for jvm tweaking, you'll | find something very interesting.
Actually, I didn't find that was the case, though it may have been down to a different setup (Debian vs. Gentoo IIRC) but my old work machine (Debian w/1Gb RAM) handled Eclipse just fine and the visual editor worked flawlessly with no noticeable slow down. However, when using the visual editor on my home machine (Gentoo w/512Mb RAM) I noticed considerable slowdown, though it was just about useable (but a pain in the arse), thankfully the normal editor wasn't too bad (but again, I noticed slowdown).
In short, you'll probably notice some slowdown, but Eclipse is the best IDE I've ever used and it's worth it :) [*]
Matt
[*] Yes, vim still rocks my world.
- -- http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/ ~ - A great source for free CGI and stuff
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