Oh it is faster than Netbeans and Eclipse both as a Java IDE. However ‘as an IDE’ compared to other IDE’s (I like to compare it to KDevelop, vim, and emacs, and lately atom as well, which are all ones that I use pretty heavily) and it is dog-slow in comparison to those. So yes, in comparison to other Java IDE’s, it is fast, but it is not fast in the overall IDE ecosystem. ^.^
