I moved up from 5.5.5 directly to 2007r1.
There are some things about the new IDE that are definitely
productivity improvers, which you will have seen I think in 2006:
- navigating by typing classes and methods into the Location field
- being able to tear off multiple search results tabs.
- version-control format is great although needs considerable work if
you want to share code - it's really just a good alternative storage
format for one person who wants to check code into version-control
and doesn't share code between projects.
HOWEVER
1) if you have less than 2GB RAM, preparation of plugins takes a VERY
long time especially if you have little free disk space (contrary to
popular belief, OS/X WILL allocate new swapfiles that are highly
fragmented but the performance loss is exponential)
2) working with multiple windows is very fragile. Any time a double-
click on a search result or compile error takes you to another
window, crash!
3) overall navigation around the IDE is slow compared to 5.5 - slow
typing and slower editing the GUI, on anything less than an Intel Mac.
On 19/02/2007, at 11:57 AM, R
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