Re: [ljc] When to adopt Java 8
| From: | Russel W. |
| Sent on: | Saturday, March 8, 2014, 5:28 PM |
On Sat,[masked] at 09:38 -0500, Martijn Verburg wrote: > Running Eclipse with the G1 collector did improve things out of the box for > me, I got less annoying pauses with thr m2e plugin in particular (I still > have to play around with tuning parameters). But, like anything with GC, it > really depends on the Object allocation rate and size of objects being > generated. For example, I have a *ton* of projects that I ad-hocly > contribute to (scaring the living daylights out of many project owners ;p), > so when I start Eclipse it gets hit pretty hard as it loads up lots of > classes, frameworks, plugins and so on. That's a high object allocation > rate of lots of variably sized objects, a GC's worst nightmare. However, > when I code, I'm *slow*, so I don't tend to tax Eclipse too heavily once > I'm up and running compared to a real dev :-). I've been running Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans on JDK8 for a while. They remain very slow. I am still not convinced they offer anything truly beneficial over using Emacs — or Vim for those who cannot bring themselves to use the One True Editor — and Bash (or you shell of choice). -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: [masked] voip: sip:[address removed] 41 Buckmaster Road m: [masked] xmpp: [address removed] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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