[CentOS] gcc?

[Mathieu Baudier]

> Assuming your system can handle the what, 1G+ IDE, and do so with
> reasonable speed....

As we speak, I have under the eyes two Eclipse workspaces with tens of
OSGi (Java) projects and hundreds of dependencies.

Workspace 1: 167M of 274M
Workspace 2: 99M of 322M
(show heap status in Preferences > General)

I have just shown a colleague how to use 'Open Type Hierarchy' (F4) to
browse through the inheritance hierarchy of any objects across all
classes of the workspace (your own + those of all libraries).
When your whole stack is FLOSS software, and you can thus directly
open the code of each third party class and continue browsing, I think
that an IDE as a real value.

I routinely have around 4 workspaces open on my 4 GB workstation
(+plenty of firefoxes, and the test servers and processes, etc.).

Sorry for the (slight) OT, since I'm talking about Java devpt, but I
want to share that I am really happy with Eclipse (v3.5.2 x86_64 PDE)
on CentOS.

In terms of stability and resource usage it is the best fit I have
found so far for Java devpt, contrary to what many would think...