Eclipse is fast, NetBeans is slow.
SWT is fast, Swing is slow.
Myths?
The blog above said new NetBeans is getting faster, while new Eclipse is getting slower.
My own experience on NetBeans 3.x on Window, it is unacceptable slow. But for NetBeans 4.0 (also 4.1 Beta), it is a lot faster, responsive. It still takes few seconds to loaded up, but after that everything goes fine.
For Eclipse, Eclipse 2.0 on Windows and Linux is very fast, especially if you compare it with NetBeans in that time. For Eclipse 3.0, on Windows it is ok — not very fast but not too bad. On Linux, it is very slow and sometimes close itself without warning (this happended many times during my thesis time, hell). read more