To join the positive comments: I started using NetBeans 6.5 in December and it started feeling slightly sluggish somewhere in January with no other problems occuring (Kubuntu 8.10, some Radeon card with the OSS driver). I checked the process table: NetBeans had been running for roughly 2 1/2 weeks, admittably holiday season, but including about 8 days of coding. I was quite impressed -- I haven't tried it on Windows, but I certainly don't run Eclipse sessions that long.
Peter On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Rob Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- What happened to Schroedinger's cat? My invisible saddled white dragon ate it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
