[platform-dev] Why my Eclipse on linux slower than on Windows?

[Zhu Haihua <zhuhh@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi there. The first time that i use mailing list and i don't know
whether posting my newbie questions like this is a proper way... So if
this mail seems anoying, please accept my appologies...

My question is: why Eclipse runs much slower on my Linux platform
(Debian distribution) than it does on WinXP? The Debian platform is
powered by a 2GHz CPU, whlile the WinXP one only has a 1.5GHz. However,
on the former one, I can even feel the lag when i'm inputing and
scrolling up and down. But in WinXP, everything goes much more smooth...
I haven't tried compiling and debugging yet... (both platforms have the
latest J2SE SDK installed, and both turn on the AA fonts for a better
look; Debian and KDE are both latest too.)

Is Eclipse especially designed / optimized for Windows platform? Or is
there anything that i can do about my Debian system to speed it up?

Thanks in advance.