Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 20:49:54 -0500 From: Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu> To: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>, Stacy Millions <stacy@millions.ca> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best IDE for slow system? Message-ID: <p0510140db89ca332f886@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <3C76C3D4.3420E15E@bowtie.nl> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA389@l04.research.kpn.com> <3C769324.F223E500@millions.ca> <3C76C3D4.3420E15E@bowtie.nl>
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At 11:19 PM +0100 2/22/02, Marc van Kempen wrote:
>Don't you guys know about jikes?
>Jikes is more than 9 times faster than javac, before we switched to Ant,
>we just recompiled everything with jikes. Since it's still faster than
>letting make do its work with jikes on individual files!
Jikes is terrific. It seems to have build-in dependency checking so
that it only pays attention to what needs it, and is blazingly fast
even then. So the recommended make rule is simply:
jikes *.java
>Jikes is even supposed to have some sort of incremental compile mode
>where it keep's running and when you press enter in the terminal it's
>running in, it recompiles the files you changed (I never tested this
>mode).
I know but don't use that much. Tend to work in a horizontally split
vim window (vim.org) with the top one reserved for a menu of commonly
used commands, notably make.
To make everything, put cursor on that line and type !!sh. Presto,
the line is replaced with an error listing to work on in the bottom.
Undo erases the errors and brings the make line back for the next
cycle. Everything is fast.
I used Visual Age heavily when getting started with Java, and really
missed it when IBM pulled out of the Linux port. Recently installed
eclipse (eclipse.org), which appears to be Visual Age's successor.
But it barely fits on my 128mb box while vim, jikes, and ctags simply
fly there.
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