Peter Ford wrote:
Windows XP ? For developing code? With ONLY 2GB of RAM? You're having a laugh!
And a source file that's 7000 lines long suggests you need to think about your
code design.
1. Get linux
2. Get more RAM
3. Refactor your code.
4. Stop cussing and get on with it...
The post that started this thread was abrasive, etc. [It was also not
mine.]
That said, when it comes to class file length, etc, shtuff happens.
- 7000 lines is by no means the upper limit of what I've seen in a
Java source file. You can't refactor a decade's worth of code
overnight. Nor should you have to.
- Windows XP is a commonly required platform in business --
and where it is not required it is the only thing IT will provide any
assistance whatsoever with. Not everyone wants to be the system
administrator for their machine at work. Some people just want to do
their work.
- RAM is often at the discretion of your employer. While going to
4GB is cheap and clearly worth it, this may not be clear to accountants.
Despite the original abrasive post, there is no reason a Java IDE
written
in Java shouldn't be able to handle 10-15k source files well (and
do so without using SWT).
I have 4GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo, so perhaps that does the trick, but
NetBeans hasn't struck me as
awful in dealing with such files
lately. Or perhaps it is just that I've been able to avoid such files
as of late.
In any case, no one should be under any illusion that NetBeans
shouldn't work
well with such files as this situation is a fact
of life for many.
--
Jess Holle
