Comments on: On Boosting My IDE(A) – Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA is fast again

By: Patate

Patate — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:23:01 +0000

Agreed. Got a corsair 128gb here. Insanely fast compared to 7200rpm. WOW. 3 months old and aging..

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:58:59 +0000

I agreed that SSD is the solution.
Thanks for the report.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:00:04 +0000

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:40:01 +0000

You can access ext3 by using Ext2 Installable File System for Windows @ http://www.fs-driver.org/ (freeware).

I use it as mentioned here http://www.javathinking.com/?p=23 (for backing up files to a disk read/writable by windows and linux).

I can’t really comment on stability, but I haven’t experienced any problems in the short time I’ve used it. (because I’m only using it on a usb drive for backups, I don’t really use it a lot – and I only really use linux these days).

By: Michael Hunger

Michael Hunger — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:41:56 +0000

Unfortunately at my client the filesystem is not of my choice. Otherwise I’d use Linux or MacOs to develop my stuff :).
What ext3/reiserfs drivers do you use with windows and how stable are these?

Michael

By: Luca Botti

Luca Botti — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:58:31 +0000

Yes, I understand that SSD is a solution – but a lot better solution would have been a better filesystem.

With all the claims by Microsoft, NTFS (not to talk about FAT32) is a pig, in any sense. Try a simple EXT3, or a ReiserFS, and you will notice the difference.

If you try virtualizing windows on a Linux Box, you will notice a sense of better performance – is the underlying file system speed.

As for the OS caches, caheing in windows is largely irrelevant – always touched, never used, like the Disk based memory, always there always used.