Anybody can provide the best Java platform specification?
I am thinking an IBM compatible PC which can compile big java file in the very fast speed. This compile platform must be able to save much time of programming. But what kind of CPU, RAM, OS can make this ture? If you are experienced this, please provide your excellent ideas, thanks a lot~!
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Let's speed up~!
Big Java files aren't as common as you would think. Any file which gets too big should be split into smaller ones. :-)
But anyway .. the machine I use at work is a P3-450 with 256Mb RAM, running Windows 2000. My IDE is IntelliJ IDEA, set up with IBM's Jikes compiler.
At home, I use a P2-300 with 64Mb RAM, running Linux, also with Jikes .. which runs slower than the first setup (no surprises there.) I also have a Celeron 600@900 with 384Mb RAM, running a beta of Windows XP, set up like the work system with IDEA and Jikes .. which is the fastest of the lot ..
.. but even though the third system is the fastest, I'd say you only need about a P3-450 to run Java compilation fast enough to use .. especially when you have Jikes as the compiler, which can speed up compilation of things like JSP 10-fold. The RAM is important for running, though, as the JVMs can be a memory hog (particularly when you use a fat, memory-intensive IDE like IDEA.)
I usually have java source files 1000-1500 lines long (including the doc comments). I use JBuilder, and IMHO it's pretty fast. In work I have a Pentium-II 350 MHz, 384 MBytes of memory, Windows 2k. Home I have an Athlon 850 MHz, 768 MBytes of memory, Win2k, so it's eventually faster there,
but it's quite fast in work, too.
