Yes, Hello. My name is Saurabh Mittal. I'm working as a Research Engineer in Arizona Center of Modeling and Simulation, UofA. This is my first post to the group. Greetings to all the jug members.
I have Tiger, 1GB RAM on my 15" 1.5GHz Powerbook. Eclipse is slow. Try JBuilder. It is one IDE built totally in java. Helps in speeding but certainly it will be slow as compared to windows !! Going back to Thinkpad makes sense. Kindly let us know if anybody has any good means to increase the speed. Thanks, Saurabh Mittal --- Landon Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this is off-topic, but I noticed that there appears to be some > Mac users on this list. I recently purchased a 15" powerbook 1.67Ghz > machine and for Java development... well, to be honest... it is > sub-optimal. It appears that the JDK is just plain slow! On a project > that I am working on, running the "core" unit tests on a 2 yr old > thinkpad takes less than 1 min, on the brand new mac it takes over 2 > minutes. Eclipse is equally slow compared to windows for me. The > incremental rebuild of eclipse takes so long on my mac that I have gone > back to using my Thinkpad for development. Here is what I have tried to > improve performance: > > > > 1. Disable Spotlight on my dev folders. > 2. Add memory (I have 1.5 GB on the mac, 1 GB on the thinkpad). > 3. Tried the latest 1.5 version of the Apple JDK. > > > > So here are my questions: > > Are other people finding Eclipse / JDK slow on the Mac? Did tiger slow > down the performance of Java (Tiger is a nice OS, but I think that I > would have really liked Jaguar more. I find myself constantly on the > verge of permanently disabling Spotlight and Dashboard Widgets haven't > jumped out at me as necessary for the way I work.)? > > > > I am thinking that I might have to go back to my old laptop :( > > > > Thanks, > > Landon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
