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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:Wrong by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hahahahahah... I suggest you go back to your "English as a second language" teacher and ask for a refund.

    The people respoding to you know better than you, so learn how to write correctly then come back and post.

  2. Re:Startup sure, but how fast does it run? by evilpenguin · · Score: 0, Troll
    Of course, I don't see myself as a "Java programmer" or a "carpenter" or a "brick layer". I wouldn't take any pride in that. I have a degree in computer science. The day you will get a college degree, or at least some formal qualification, you won't need to go around saying: I am a "Java programmer".


    "Thank you, Dr. Science. Send your science questions to 'Ask Dr. Science.' Remember, he's not a real Doctor!"

    " I have a Master's Degree."

    "In SCIENCE!"

    With all due apologies to the Duck's Breath Mystery Theater.
  3. Re:Startup sure, but how fast does it run? by millenium · · Score: 0, Troll

    "But the trick is, you don't start a new JVM for each invocation"

    You've admitted by yourself that Java architectures are characterized by the concern to workaround its deficiencies. Workaround upon workaround you stubbornly ignore the facts and you even get upset when someone raises the issue openly.

    It's a bit like Sun Microsystems. They've been hearing for 5 years that they should do something about Swing; but they won't do anything about it. Worse, they would sue anybody who does.