3 ms·

You are underestimating how much processing power you need for a smooth experience using IntelliJ, even without compiling anything :P

throwaway4good 5y ago
Huh - my ten year old mbp runs intellij just fine?!
- thebean11 5y ago
  Really? My 2013 high spec'd Mac Pro is feeling the pain on a medium sized typescript project. The coding hints / errors take many seconds to load.
  - MockObject 5y ago
    That's odd. It runs as snappy as ever on my 16G 2013 MacBook Pro.
    - thebean11 5y ago
      What MacOS version? I might have made a mistake by upgrading
      - MockObject 5y ago
        It's running El Capitan. I also have a 16G 2015 MBP running Monterey and IntelliJ with no problem at all though.
      - digisign 5y ago
        On Big Sur at least there are dozens of daemons running that can't be turned off due to the read-only system partition. I'd check those and third-party software that could be sapping performance. Gets more important with older hardware.
- theshrike79 5y ago
  We might have different definitions of "just fine". On my M1 Max MBP Jetbrains Rider stars in under two seconds. Loading the quite large project takes another two. On my previous laptop, an i7 MBP, it took in the order of minutes to get Rider to the point where I could actually start writing code with codecompletion. It sounded like a jet taking off while Rider blasted all cores at max to enable the smart completions. The M1 Max isn't even slightly warm in the same case. Haven't found out a single spot where it would've even slightly stuttered.
mopierotti 5y ago
One thing I'll throw out there is that I've recently been running IntelliJ using jdk 17 with ZGC as the garbage collector, and it seems snappier. (You can use the 17.0 runtime that jetbrains releases on github, this page has more related info https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-idea-with-jdk17-for-better-render-performance/ https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-id... )

throwaway4good 5y ago

Huh - my ten year old mbp runs intellij just fine?!

thebean11 5y ago
Really? My 2013 high spec'd Mac Pro is feeling the pain on a medium sized typescript project. The coding hints / errors take many seconds to load.
- MockObject 5y ago
  That's odd. It runs as snappy as ever on my 16G 2013 MacBook Pro.
  - thebean11 5y ago
    What MacOS version? I might have made a mistake by upgrading
    - MockObject 5y ago
      It's running El Capitan. I also have a 16G 2015 MBP running Monterey and IntelliJ with no problem at all though.
    - digisign 5y ago
      On Big Sur at least there are dozens of daemons running that can't be turned off due to the read-only system partition. I'd check those and third-party software that could be sapping performance. Gets more important with older hardware.
theshrike79 5y ago
We might have different definitions of "just fine". On my M1 Max MBP Jetbrains Rider stars in under two seconds. Loading the quite large project takes another two. On my previous laptop, an i7 MBP, it took in the order of minutes to get Rider to the point where I could actually start writing code with codecompletion. It sounded like a jet taking off while Rider blasted all cores at max to enable the smart completions. The M1 Max isn't even slightly warm in the same case. Haven't found out a single spot where it would've even slightly stuttered.

mopierotti 5y ago

One thing I'll throw out there is that I've recently been running IntelliJ using jdk 17 with ZGC as the garbage collector, and it seems snappier. (You can use the 17.0 runtime that jetbrains releases on github, this page has more related info https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-idea-with-jdk17-for-better-render-performance/ https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-id... )