Eclipse Efficiency

[brightmatter]

Hello everyone. I am here to ask a hardware question as it pertains to the Eclipse IDE. I have a choice to either run Eclipse off my home PC or my laptop. I am looking for eclipse to boot up fast and for my programs to have fast compilations.

The PC is an Athlon, 2.04GHz 64bit proc, running windows XP (32 bit) SP3 with 1GB RAM

The Laptop is an Intel Atom, 1.8GHz dual proc, running Fedora 10 with 2GB RAM.

They are VASTLY different processors and computer setups. I was wondering if Eclipse has some features that allow it to take advantage of hyper-threading thus making the Atom the clear choice.

Thank you for your answers in advance.

BM

[ReekenX]

Hello brightmatter.
Have you checked: Eclipse Downloads? By the way: I have also used Eclipse IDE about 6 months, but now, I am using Netbeans. Why? Because it is faster IDE for me, on 2 GB RAM, 2 GHz, 32 bit process. You interested only in eclipse for Java?

[brightmatter]

I have used Netbeans as well but I find it is missing some of the more advanced stuff like version control and a good debugger.

[Brandon W]

It depends on what language you want to use it for. What language/s do you plan on using this IDE for.

[brightmatter]

Java and C I doubt I will do my other languages on this IDE.

[Brandon W]

I am not to sure for C, but Netbeans was built for Java. I have never used Eclipse for Java so I am not to sure.

[barrye]

I use Eclipse (Jboss IDE) in VMWare environment. It has 800M EAM and 10G HD. It is working ok. It takes 1~2 minutes to start.

[xsonline]

Eclipse works just fine, but it gets slow when you try to edit big files.