Re: [ajug-members]: Eclipse performance on linux... (A poll maybe?)

[Andy <n_anand@vsnl.net>]

On Tuesday 09 March 2004 06:19 pm, Ray Elenteny wrote:
> ...
> 2. The VM makes a difference.  If Eclipse is not running with a 1.4 VM
> (at least from Sun), it will run slower.  This holds true for the
> Windows platforms as well.
>
> 3. I attended Eclipsecon in early February and sat in on the Linux BoF.
>   There were a number of users indicating slowness as compared to the
> Windows environment.  The member of the Eclipse team heading up the BoF
> discussed the effort they are undertaking to bring 3.0 to the same level
> of performance of Windows.  They know they have some issues, but they
> also know that they've made significant progress.  They run a set of
> benchmark tests across all platforms to monitor the performance of UI.
>   I have seen with each build of 3.0 that the Windows and Linux
> environments are approaching the same level of performance.

I know this suggestion may not be practical, but Eclipse *should* ship with
its own JRE. IDEA does that. 

>
> 4. As others have said in this thread, there can be several other
> factors that come into play with a Linux GUI application completely
> unrelated to the application itself.  Ensuring that whatever Linux UI
> environment that's in use is running well goes a long way to helping out
> with an application as complex as Eclipse.

Yeps! 

>
> Ray

: Andy