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by jameshiew 1701 days ago
I agree, it looks like JB are working on upgrading the default runtime to Java 17, but I think generally they could encourage developers to try out different runtimes anyway and report bugs rather than warning so strongly against it. I understand the JB runtime made some improvements to UI stuff, certainly the font rendering is much better in it, but at least for my setup that's not a big issue compared to things like indexing time. It'd be interesting to see a comparison of using different runtimes for IntelliJ, with proper profiling and the like.
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gjvc 1701 days ago
WOW. With Correto 15, I can zoom (control+mouse wheel) the text in the editor up and down immediately. With JBR 11 it takes about 10 goes to warm up the JVM. DataGrip is _greatly_ improved.
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gjvc 1700 days ago
The difference is night-and-day. I am using the Azul Zing JVM 15 with PyCharm 2021.3 EAP and it's so much more like a native application than with the JBR JVM 11.

I have long felt that I have been working in molasses with my JetBrains tools up until this point. JetBrains need to come correct and update JBR to something modern, immediately.

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