On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:40:15 +0800, "Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emacs may have been bloated in the redhat3 days. but nowadays its pretty > sleek. > > eclipse is in a completely different league. heck its even more > bloated than JDeveloper! if you read the reviews comparing commercial > Java IDE's, JDeveloper always comes out at the top in the speed and > responsiveness categories. >
i dont know about JDeveloper/JBuilder but much of Eclipse's bloat has something to do with the fact that Eclipse is really a framework and the editor just happened to be a byproduct. somebody could excise a lot of the bloat if they dont need it but the problem is that nobody can predict what would really be needed thus a huge core functionality (plugin) is built-in. the Eclipse IDE is a perfect example of a 'product' engineered with standards and OOP in mind, with a bit of pseudo-intelligence built-in but at the cost of some bloat and performance hit. at this age where processing power and harddrive cost are decreasing, some have decided it is a good trade-off. btw, linux: vim, windows: pspad (which is the closest thing to a free ultra-edit that i can find). <snip> ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else better to do _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
