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Oct.
2003

Eclipse 3.0 M1 on OS X noticeable faster!

Today I downloaded Eclipse 3.0 M1 because I wanted to see how Eclipse/SWT is improving on OS X. Long story short: very nice! The performance is much better than the current stable release 2.1. Most parts now feel very smooth on my G4 733. Scrolling large Java files is really fast. I guess I will stick to IDEA for now because personally I think that the workflow in IDEA is still better. But if you are looking for a free Java IDE you might give Eclipse 3.0 M1 a try =)

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1. Behrang Saeedzadeh
Hi Very nice and informative site. Elegant design. but the comments have not a scrollbar so I have to scroll down by clicking on the page, and dragging the mouse down... I'm using IE on XP.

2. P R
Have you installed all your plugins? Is your project size same?

3. WoEyE
No I have just installed clean versions of Eclipse 2.1 and 3.0 M1. The UI feels much more responsive in 3.0 M1. There's a note in the release notes about MacOS X saying that they made some improvements in SWT.

4. RE: Website UI
You are right. I have the same problem as well. Never noticed it before. Will have a look. Thanks for the hint!

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