Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:51:16 -0700 From: Stacy Millions <stacy@millions.ca> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best IDE for slow system? Message-ID: <3C769324.F223E500@millions.ca> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA389@l04.research.kpn.com>
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"Koster, K.J." wrote:
> When the going gets tough, the IDE's let you down.
I'll second that! I have spent more time trying to fix IDE generated
code then it would have taken me to write it in the first place.
> As for IDE: I develop with FreeBSD's default vi and Ant 1.4.1.
> Ant's only virtue is that it will work on all OS's.
I thought I was the last of the vi die hards :-) One other plus
for ant, at least compared to make, is speed. Because make will
fire up a new javac (and therefore a new VM) for each source
file it compiles, it can be quite slow. Ant just fire the compiler
off in a thread of its VM, much faster. The first package I converted
from make to ant contained about 350 source files. With make, a
"make clean all" took about 35 minutes, the equivalent with ant
is less then five minutes. That is on a celeron 333 running FBSD-stable.
-stacy
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Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
- Monty Python _The Life Of Brian_
Stacy Millions stacy@millions.ca
Millions Consulting Limited
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