Hello List, I installed Debian Lenny on my Asus G1 Laptop for java development and I experience a very slow behaviour on Eclipse using the Sun VM. For information, I installed Eclipse 3.2.1, the Java Sun Vm 1.5 and 1.6, all provided by the Debian mirrors.
I already found on the net to change my prefrences of the used java using the update-alternatives command and I also created a .eclipse/eclipserc file in my home dir to specify the JAVA_HOME to use. I saw a difference at first when switching from the default vm (gcj) to the Sun VM; eclipse with gcj is really awful slow. But, my question is rather in comparing with the Eclipse behaviour under MS Windows I use at work. How come that I notice such a great difference between the same software under Debian and under Windows? Is there something to configure to make this work better? I also heared of several alternatives to the Sun VM (if this is the problem) like BlackDown Java; will my eclipse run faster if I use this one? I though with such a performant laptop I would have no trouble making Eclipse and java run, but it seems that neither the quality of the laptop nor the amount of RAM (2Go) make a difference. Does someone had the same problems or can somebody tell me from where it does come from (maybe it's only that the Sun VM is optimized for Windows???). Thanks a lot Regards Alexandre
