[astange]

Edit the idea64.vmoptions config file and use the GC of your choice. I've been running with ShenandoahGC for quite some time now and it's been working great.

Also, see https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime/releases/tag/j... for a JDK17 runtime for Intellij products. I've been running this too and it works great (but does require some tweaks to the vmoptions file).

[5e92cb50239222b]

Text can look pretty bad if you're using other JVMs without their patches.

[hawk_]

Yes particularly on Linux, any non jetbrains jdk running intellij looks awful. I don't know if the consider it as some kind of competitive advantage to not submit fixes upstream.

[belter]

What are they doing in the JVM to make text look good?

[vips7L]

I tried this last year but the version they shipped with IDEA didn't have ZGC and using an external JVM caused some weirdness in the GUI for me.

[parhamn]

Curious before I try it, is the speed/performance any better?

[astange]

It depends. There is less latency in the IDE due primarily to better GC (just as the article describes). I think the speed is better too on things like indexing the code base, but that could depend on your computer. I'm running on a 32core high end AMD system with lots of RAM, and I increase the heap setting in Intellij to 4G, etc. I think the IDE is subjectively better.

We run all our production applications on JDK17 too, which is why I push to run everything on 17.