Hi Chris, you were spot on - it was Chrome plugin to blame. After installing Firefox plugin (the thread you referred me to was helpful), I see the same GWT debugging speed in Linux as I saw in Windows.
Thanks a lot! MG > > On Nov 7, 9:27 pm, Chris Conroy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Your slowness is not a Linux vs. Windows issue: it is a Chrome plugin > > vs. Firefox plugin issue. > > > The Chrome NPAPI based plugin is known to be a lot slower than the > > Firefox XPCOM plugin. This is partly due to the out of process nature > > of plugins in chrome: each JS<->Java boundary crossing incurs extra > > IPC latency. Also, there are some object identity issues in the Chrome > > plugin model that require us to do some performance harming > > workarounds for the sake of correctness. We hope the object identity > > issues will be worked out, and we should get a speedup from that. > > There isn't a lot to be done for the out of process problem, and > > Firefox will probably head in that direction in future versions (just > > a guess). > > > The Firefox plugin should install just fine on 64 bit ubuntu--I use it > > myself all the time. Some other distros have some shared library > > conflicts. FWIW, there are some troubleshooting tips in this > > thread:http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/threa... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
