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Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-gui-on dept.

Mark Wielaard writes "The gcj team created a natively compiled build of the Eclipse IDE. The resulting binary starts up faster then with any traditional JVM since there is no virtual machine to initialize or slow byte code interpreter or just in time compiler involved. This means that gcj got a lot better since the last Slashdot story in December about gcj and Eclipse. Red Hat provides RPMs for easy installation. Footnotes has screenshots by Havoc Pennington of the Eclipse IDE with GTK+ widgets."

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  1. Re:Startup sure, but how fast does it run? by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From your comments it's apparent you're not a Java programmer then, because you merely repeat old complaints that are no longer valid. Ok, sure, the JRE takes up a bit of space but compared to the size of hard drives today the amount is trivial. Having the JRE on disk is like installing the MS or Borland libraries (or Linux counterparts) that some applications use - once it's there other applications don't have to include the code as part of the executable.

    Swing suffers from obesity - what does that mean?

    I've been developing Java applications for years (including a stint as project lead on a weather satellite imagery analysis program) and I know firsthand how much Java has improved. Spend some time writing applications in Java, using Swing (I use Netbeans for my IDE)...you'll see how sporty applications can be. Also check out Sun's Java Games community for some links to games that really exhibit excellent performance.