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Re:The strange case of virtual machines on telephones by jrockway on Thursday August 26, 2010 @07:58PM (#1637571)
Yeah, but I tried opening Eclipse and it took a while for my 3400 RPM disk to read it into memory. Since Eclipse is written in Java, Java is slow!

Incidentally, Visual Studio and KDevelop are native code, and they take a while to load too. Could it be that big bloated apps are big and bloated, VM or not?

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Re:The strange case of virtual machines on telephones by blub on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:27AM (#1638345)
Not only Eclipse is slow, but pretty much every Java program that I've tried. Also, a lot of code in Visual Studio is managed, especially in the UI.
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