Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year
Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:31:47 -0400
On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
1) It's too damn slow. At times, I can type faster than it can
process the keystrokes.
2) It's too damn slow. I once opened a 100kb source file. It took
Xcode five minutes to open the file and syntax-color it.
3) It's too damn slow. Any time you modify and save a header file, it
takes 30 seconds or so for the spinning pizza to stop.
4) It's too damn slow. It never takes less than a second for Xcode to
respond to any UI action, and often it takes long enough for the
spinning pizza to show up.
5) It's too damn slow. When doing a "find in files", it takes 10-15
minutes for the results to show up.
I haven't noticed these, but I have seen times when responding to
clicks in the project window took an excessively long time. My
suspicion is that Xcode relies heavily on functionality supplied by
Cocoa and that Cocoa isn't always designed to hand more demanding
situations. If you open a 5K source file, Cocoa's mechanism is fine.
For a 100K source file, it's completely inadequate. I suspect some of
Xcode's other speed issues result from the same basic issue, too much
reliance on Cocoa.
8) It uses too much memory -- I've got a gigabyte in my computer, and
linking sends the computer into a half-hour frenzy of thrashing the
hard drive.
I hear Xcode really likes at least two GBs. I have 2 GB and that
seems to give it the room in needs. I suspect they're using memory to
improve speed, as scary as that thought probably is to you. ;-)
10) The UI is about as un-Apple as you can get. When I'm using a Mac,
I don't expect to need to refer to the GCC man page on a regular
basis.
Ditto. The problem here as I understand it is that Xcode is just a
GUI for GCC and GCC is true Unix creation with all the fixin's.
Larry
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