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I love intellij idea, but it's pretty damn slow for a lot of things (though never quite as bad as eclipse). I have always wondered if the JVM is optimizing for

I love intellij idea, but it's pretty damn slow for a lot of things (though never quite as bad as eclipse). I have always wondered if the JVM is optimizing for tasks that happen at startup, at the expense of performance during use. It would be a shame if the slow performance simply came down to the JVM profiling at startup and determining that the core function of the entire program was to index the code in your workspace.

jsiepkes 7y ago
Slow compared to? VSCode? Visual Studio? Vim?
- ccmcarey 7y ago
  From experience, slower than VSCode by quite a bit, and both VSCode and Jetbrains are of course slower than Vim by an order of magnitude.
qqssccfftt 7y ago
In my experience, IntelliJ is as fast as VS Code. It'll never be as fast as a terminal editor because it has actual features as opposed to just being a text editor. Outside of startup (which has gotten so much better in the last years I don't even see the splash screen anymore) and initial indexing upon project creation or library downloading, it's perfectly fast enough.
- tracker1 7y ago
  In my own experience IntelliJ is slower than VS Code to use... It will depend on what you're doing as VS Code has an interesting plugin module to not hang up the UI/Editor itself... Not all the plugins respond in time while typing, but I can at least keep typing and it continues to function with basic editing (general worst case).