using this IDE design for an Electronic CAD

[epsilon_da]

Hey, i think almost exactly like you about this.

I deeply hate java. It is maybe 150 times slower. But python is the only interpreted language that show me a quicker alternative to C. Also i have not seen too much (if any) speed downs becouse python is almost completely C. What a python script does is organize how other libreries should be called conforming a program, those python lines are normally only executed when the user interacts with the interface, like when clicking a button the script just tells what other control should be updated, the hard work is made in C.

Also i will not do this project in any interpreted language.

I say that it is very much like C, becouse out of esthetical features, each line could be directly converted to a analogous C code (more complex of course) and python provides an API to make it by hand. There are some tools designed to do that (python to C conversion) but i have never run into the need to use it.

[Keyla]

Even if offtopic I have to defend Java a bit. It is idealy if you have to manage client/server and webapplications at the same time because they can share the same codebase. Nevertheless it is slow, of course.

So you are thinking of Java for extensions/userscripts etc. ? I think thats fine, a lot of my favourite apps use it (Inkscape, Gimp, Blender,....) and it is quite popular.

[thomas]

Are you using Vista ?
With that Memory load i will never ever touch it.

Hahaha, no Vista doesn't run with that little memory. Assume at least twice as much for Vista.

Ceniza just told me his fresh Vista install uses 650 MB of RAM just sitting there.
That's so ridiculous that I just had to update the info 

[epsilon_da]

yes, i confirm that.

My brother has recently installed it, and it is 650 Mb big in a DDR 2 system.

Completely Ridiculous. Is an insult to the consumer.

[dmoore]

superfetch? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/performance.mspx

[JGM]

Is strange, since I tested vista on some systems and only consumes about 250-275mb of ram, like windows xp. It could be that superfetch that dmoore is talking about. And if vista runs in basic mode it consumes less memory.