One of the many stories doing the rounds this week was the new version of Eclipse, about which Ars had this to say, among other things:
I tested the Helios Eclipse Java development package on my desktop computer, which is running Ubuntu 10.04 and has a six-core i7 980X. The new version of Eclipse takes roughly five seconds to start up on this system and uses several hundred megabytes when idle.
I suppose these days one must be like, you know, thankful that it takes just 5 seconds..
There was also a mention of Fabrice Bellard on reddit, author of TCCBOOT, a small (138 KB) compiler and boot loader that can compile and run a Linux kernel in 15 seconds.
And to think.. you could almost open a file in Eclipse in that time!
