For what it's worth, I found developing using Netbeans on Ubuntu was much quicker than when I was using Windows, alhough I must admit it was with Vista. My only reason for swapping back to Windows was because Netbeans was buggy - sometimes dialogs would display with nothing in it, other times it might be okay. It became too frustrating, so eventually I found some property that disabled / changed the UI features and it manifested itself different, but marginly more usable (it was also 6.5 beta).
I hate Vista, but reliability (oxymoron?) is key... at least it was more reliable than my Ubuntu experience. At least I gave it a go, but I must confess to using a normal JRE (non- server) and it was most definitely quicker. I was however doing GWT coding, on Windows it could task 50 seconds to build and deploy, Ubuntu nearer 5 seconds. I think a lot of it had to do with the Physical memory available in Ubuntu (1.5 gig out of 2 available, windows 1 gig available out of 2). Anyway, that's my personal experience. Rob. On Jan 12, 11:09 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, while raw performance of a Java application may be higher on > Linux, it is many peoples experience that the opposite is the case > with perceived performance of anything with a UI. In short, on the > same machine, NetBeans FEELS faster when running on Windows than > running on Linux. I've heard this is due to the relatively old X > server design, don't really know, but it often comes up on nbusers > mailing list with people who just switched to Linux. And to be honest, > I would prefer perceived performance over synthetic-micro-benchmark-of- > the-day performance. > > /Casper > > On Jan 12, 11:41 pm, Marco Zühlke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I think the comparison that indicates that Ubuntu is much faster than > > Windows Vista results from the fact that they have compared the server > > Hotspot VM on Linux against the client one on Vista. > > On Windows, if not specified otherwise, always the client VM is > > chosen. On Linux in contrary this decisions depends on the machine. > > More than 2GB of RAM and more than 2 cores result in the server VM. > > > The article does not mention that one of both Hotspot VMs has been > > chosen deliberately, so the default selection took place. I think the > > numbers are in line with this. > > > Would be nice to have a REAL comparison between Windows, Mac and Linux > > using the same JDK and the same Hotspot version on the same hardware. > > > Marco --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
