On Feb 19, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Andy Dent wrote: > I moved up from 5.5.5 directly to 2007r1.
So did I. In general I think this is a very good release. Coming all the way from 5.5 there were a lot of things in my code i had to adjust, but mostly things worked great. I am very happy with the new IDE. I DONT like the list of controls to the left, I liked the pallet better as I knew where things were and I could just grab it and drag. The new one half the time I have to scroll the window before I can find in the long list what I want. It just takes longer. How about making the graphic pallet an option again? But the aggrivations are things like that, not serious detriments to development. Though others have commented that the speed of the IDe hasn't gotten much better from 5.5, it does do some things better. It is my impression that with VERY long methods it's speed is more consistent. I have some methods that have resisted refactoring that were very slow to update between keypresses on 5.5 and on 2007r1 they dont seem to care how long the code is. This is an improvement. > > 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) Even with 2GB of ram preparation of plugins takes forever. Like go refil your coffee and get a donut forever. Not quite go out to lunch forever. And it stalls the entire system while it's doing it too. I can't even switch to other apps as the system is swapping to save it's life. What on earth is happening here I have no idea, but thank goodness it only happens once for any app given any set of plugins. > > 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! > Yup, this has happened to me too. Continue to exercise the Save before Run reflex that I developed in version 2 ;) OH, and I wish the code editor would remember where I dragged the separators between the different panels... I should head over to the feature request DB... But overall I am very happy with this and I'm building good apps! James _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
