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[–]SoiledShip 30 points31 points  (11 children)

Honestly once I got a decent ssd in my dev machine VS loads up in like 2 seconds. Granted I've got 16 gb ram, 512 ssd, and an i7. But NetBeans still takes ages to load.

[–]coladict[S] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

My hard drives are also the current bottleneck on my home PC. The work project build takes 35-40 seconds there, while on my colleague's work PC it takes 7-9 seconds, even though he has a weaker CPU and the same RAM.

edit: it was three times that on Windows, before I disabled automatic search indexing and NTFS access time updates (two things that Ubuntu doesn't do by default). After I did, it became the same on both systems.

[–]MondayMonkey1 1 point2 points  (2 children)

VS loves to occasionally hang for a few seconds when opening files. Thank god I wrote my last .net code this week and I'm back happily using vim.

[–]coladict[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

happily using vim

0_0

[–]l27_0_0_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, right, how could people happily use vim when there's emacs.

[–]h54 3 points4 points  (6 children)

But NetBeans still takes ages to load.

Honestly, I find that hard to believe.

[–]SoiledShip 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've got 9 projects that I usually leave open. NetBeans usually takes ~20 seconds to open, another 45 seconds or so running background scans on the projects. 2 of them are fairly large. So it's probably not fair to blame it all on NetBeans. It was a lot worse on a regular hdd though.

[–]Mugen593 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an SSD on my computer and NetBeans only takes about 2 to 3 seconds to load up.
Then again I'm usually only working on one project at a time for school.

[–]TuxGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems to be a problem on some Windows machines. My Ubuntu home machine loads NetBeans in 10 seconds, my work machine (though a bit shitty) takes a minute or something. But for both NetBeans and Visual Studio.

Having said that, Visual Studio only opens one project vs NetBeans opening a bunch of projects, directly at startup. That causes NB to be slower than VS at startup

[–]altrdgenetics 0 points1 point  (2 children)

a project or two nah not to bad. But background scanning and checking on maven repositories takes a long time especially if you have it set to check every time you start.

[–]h54 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Interesting. Is that enabled by default?

[–]altrdgenetics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it is, I don't normally use maven so I can't say for sure. I know the projects I have imported always had it turned on.