Well what I experience most often are 2 big things:
- Random freezes every few minutes where it freezes for 5-15 seconds when heavily using it.
- Anytime there is any decent amount of code on the screen and I scroll then it does this low-FPS jumping movement that makes me a bit motion sick.
Both of which look very bad on it.
Compared to KDevelop, which I find an absolute king of IDE’s (at least for C++). It’s intellisense is better, faster, more detailed (I can even go through multiple levels of macro nesting and see each step unfold), and better yet is it never freezes or hurgurks with low-fps when scrolling. ^.^
Even Atom does not have that slow scrolling issue (although it does freeze on occasion, but those are more around freezing for 1 second every few minutes, which is more dealable).
And I tend to keep my IDE’s (KDevelop, emacs, vim, atom, intellij) running for weeks at a time without reloading, so no reloading issue there. ^.^
Let’s see, atom has been up for 39 days, 2 hours, and 23 minutes.
This computer has been up for… er… 509 days, 17 hours, and 53 minutes, I should probably reboot… (I’d like to see my work computer be up for this long… ^.^).
But overall the slowest part of intellij is easily the rendering performance, it is pretty abysmal. The rest of it seems pretty fast though, especially compared to other IDE’s built in Java.
