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First, let me say I mostly agree with you that storage speed is more important for application launch speed than CPU or RAM. I have an nvme ssd which gets arou
by tpxl 5y ago
First, let me say I mostly agree with you that storage speed is more important for application launch speed than CPU or RAM.
I have an nvme ssd which gets around 450MB/s according to dd, a Ryzen 3900x (12 cores, 24 threads) and 64 gigabytes of RAM.
That being said, IntelliJ Community edition, installed as a snap, takes 24 seconds to get to splash screen, 57 additional seconds for the splash screen to disappear then another 35 seconds before the first text appears in the IntelliJ window (it's a blank gray window before that) for a grand total of 1 minute and 56 seconds of startup time.
Some things are just unreasonably slow despite absolute beastmode hardware.
- bcrosby95 5y agoI don't know what "installed as a snap" means, but: I'm running WSL 2 with MobaXterm and from running idea.sh, intellij's splash screen comes up in less than 1 second, and my list of projects comes up in about 3 seconds.
- tpxl 5y agoIt's a packaging system for Ubuntu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(package_manager) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(package_manager)). It's not that IntelliJ is slow, it's that something to do with the snap packages makes them dog slow (Same thing happened with Spotify installed through snap, while a .deb launches in about a second).
- plasticchris 5y agoProbably installed with snapd
- elzbardico 5y agoMy experience with snap is that it makes Ubuntu absurdly slow. I completely removed this spawn of satan from my Ubuntu machines.