As some of you may know I'm a big Mac person. I split my time equally between my iBook (now heading back to the shop, alas) and my WinXP desktop. Being a dyed in the wool plain jane text editor type of programmer I've used jEdit for the past five years and have only recently started using an IDE like Netbeans. I've found Netbeans to a great productivity booster but on my iBook it seems to generate garbage at a mad pace. This is okay, it's just garbage, not a memory leak; but it's a pain when the editor locks up for five seconds to do garbage collection. Fortunately there is a solution.
I recently gave a talk on application optimization at JavaOne Tokyo. The last part of the presentation talks about how choose different garbage
This website explains how to compile and run Java 2 SE 5.0 (Java 1.5)
programs on the Mac OS X. The tutorial is meant for Tiger
(Mac OS 10.4.2), but information regarding Panther (Mac OS 10.3.*)
is located at the bottom of the page.
Instructions For Tiger (10.4)
If you are using Tiger, it is recommended that you upgrade to the
most recent release of the operating system (10.4.2 at present).
You can check what version of the OS you're running by going to
"About This Mac" in the drop-down Apple menu.
PART I: Installing the necessary Java 1.5 files.
First, you must install the Java 1.5 files located at
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/java2se50release1.html.
The file size is 34 MB.
PART II: Making Java 1.5 your default for applications and applets
Open
HOWTO Speedup your Debian GNU/Linux
Jérôme Warnier
2005-03-26 10:30
Warning: This article is still work in progress.
You have to keep in mind that speed is somewhat relative. It is often just
a question of personal feeling, especially for a desktop machine.
Th
