RE: jde considered harmful
This must definitely be an Xemacs
problem.
Well, probably - although often these things
turn out to be due to the different architectures
of XEmacs and Emacs. The key here is to find out
what the problem actually is.
For instance it takes roughly 11 seconds to
load JDE on my PIII 850 and 5 seconds to load
and fontify a 1500 line Java file. I suspect
that the original problem is not so much
the speed of JDE but just the time it takes
JDE to load on XEmacs. This is on a cygwin
compiled XEmacs which is known to be slower
than a natively compiled XEmacs.
I tried Xemacs and abandonned it a long
time ago because it thought that a file
loaded through a soft link was different
from the same file loaded along the
normal path and because the the debugger
(JDEbug) took forever.
I believe these problems have been fixed.
Certainly these things work well enough for me.
andy