Eclipse 3.3 is crappy slow

After all it turns out that crap factor has overcome over the usability factor. Basically Eclipse 3.3 contains some improvements to speed things up. However, in reality it’s just slower then 3.2.x. Reason for this strangeness is the fact that Eclipse 3.2, made big speed improvement by starting to use jar packaged plugins. This reduced…

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RMI over zipped stream

If large amounts of compressable data is transferred over RMI, then valid question to ask is if compression would make any benefit there. However, before going into compression of the outputstream, first thing is to do algorithmic changes to reduce traffic. I.e. no compresion can match algorithm which avoids reduntant traffic completely. Also compression adds…

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