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Almost all popular IDEs are extremely slow. Intellij is unusable on my 8 core 8 GB ram laptop.
by lucian1900 14y ago
Almost all popular IDEs are extremely slow. Intellij is unusable on my 8 core 8 GB ram laptop.
- hhariri 14y agoI can tell you that that's not normal. Have you ever got in touch with support?
- mgkimsal 14y agodefinitions of 'unusable' vary greatly. 16gb 2ghz quadcore 2011 mbp with 256g SSD and intellij is usable about 95% of the time - I get slow downs and hangs, but their OS-level stuff - I get the same stuff hangs in macvim, textwrangler, eclipse, pixelfari and other apps.
- lucian1900 14y agoUnusable as it very often freezes for about 5-60secs. Only IDEs written in Java appear to suffer from this, and that's most of them. I want a good IDE, but none of them are good.
- nevster 14y agoHave you tried editing the the bin/idea.exe.vmoptions file to set -Xmx higher?
- lucian1900 14y agoI've just upgraded to Pycharm 2.7, it's a lot better. It also looks a lot less horrible. However, there is still an unacceptable delay between typing and feedback, around 300ms. Performance was clearly not a priority for them.