I've been programming for about 2 years, and so far Java is all I know.When I made the switch from BlueJ to eclipse I noticed my old projects ran much faster. What would be the reason for this, as far as I knew the executing of java byte code is handled by the JVM and I still had the same JVM after I switched. Other than that does eclipse have had a different compiler? That's the only other thing I could think of.Edit:I timed it, the average runtime for, we'll call it A(100), in blueJ was 1 Minutes; 8 Seconds; 846 Milliseconds. In eclipse A(100) only took 8 Seconds; 459 Milliseconds. I've also noticed the increase for all my other programs too. I haven't measured those yet but the difference is definitely noticeable.A() is a function that does alot of computation than prints of a chart of information based on what it found, fyi.
Why do my java programs run faster in eclipse than in BlueJ?
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I think the main reason is that BlueJ runs your code in a VM with a debugger attached.  BlueJ actually has two VMs running: the main one, and the one with your code inside (the user VM, aka the debug VM).  The main VM has a debugger attached to the user VM, which allows it to do things like pause user code, inspect the state of objects and all sorts.  I imagine this probably adds a fair bit of overhead (perhaps inhibiting the JIT compilation?); the speed that code executes is not a major concern for a learning environment like BlueJ, as long as it's reasonable.