Dennis, You're probably right about everything you said regarding the Java platform. I am not familiar enough with the inner details of the JVM to speak intelligently on the possible cause of what I am experiencing. But I used to use JBuilder 6 which is also a Java/Swing app and I never encountered the "typing delay" I see on IDEA. I wont go back to JBuilder; IDEA is simply a better IDE.
With that said, I hope IntelliJ looks at the issue and finds a solution comparable to what the folks at Borland did. This really is a sweet IDE. Now if they could just word wrap those darn long tooltip error messages! I nearly lost it yesterday with an error in my code (little wave red line underneath some segment of code)--hovering over it gave me a tooltip that could not be read---EVEN after going to some assinine 5000x3000 resolution or some equivalent *just to see the tooltip message*. So I look at the status line ---that too is not word wrapped. Fine. I'll figure out the problem myself, I thought. After all, it's not like I am using an IDE which is supposed to help me on these issues, right? (I haven't had my coffee yet.) :-) "Dennis Thrys�e" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Michael Morett wrote: > > I will hold firm to the position > > that hitting the backspace key should not cause a 3 second delay. Certainly > > not on a 6k file. > > Of course not. > > But I sense that this problem doesn't occur for everybody. I know a > number of people running build 642 - none of us has the problem to the > extent you describe. > > I do see some garbage collection lag now an then (and that can take some > time - probably up to 60 seconds). But that's just how the JVM works. > > Incremental garbage collection is - surprisingly enough - not that much > better. At least not for me. > > This whole problem (and the problem concerning memory consumption in > general) is a big deal for the Java platform. You need to make very > smart code in order to not use lots and lots of memory. And there is a > significant overhead with using much memory in Java. Especially if just > a tiny corner of the JVM's heap is swapped out to disk. > > -dennis > _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
