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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by masklinn on Sunday October 03, 2010 @06:00PM (#1753744)
> It was most likely building an index of your source tree or something.

He's comparing it to building emacs from source. He's quite obviously trolling: Emacs has 15MB of C source and header files already.

On my machine (2010 15" MBP) a configure alone takes 20s, which is about 3 times the loading time of an empty IntelliJ (no project), and about twice if loading a preexisting (cached) project. A `make` of 23.2 takes nearly 3 minutes. Unless he's trying to launch an IDE with no free RAM or building an already-built soft (or a networked build), his declarations hardly make sense.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by jfb on Monday October 04, 2010 @01:04PM (#1756386)
Not a troll. The IDEA project contained upwards of 60 subprojects, and the time from clicking the IDEA icon to the availability of the editor was often more than four minutes. On my eight-core, 16GB Mac Pro.
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