title: eclipse performance arm vs intel
body: <p>I'm using Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 with 3 GB ram, and SSD HDD for java development under Ubuntu 64, all is tweaked, but it's still slow. I mean switching between windows and other simple actions, even when it starts up, especially when you open few big projects.
  I heard that arm has jazelle and thumb on newer processors, which execute java bytecode directly, and it's fast.
  If I switch to such machine would eclipse(java) work faster?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong>:
  Thanks for anwserws. I know that Core i7 is at least 4 times faster for java ( just have a look <a href="http://infoscreens.org/benchmark_en.html" rel="nofollow">http://infoscreens.org/benchmark_en.html</a> ), but I thought that ARM, which are 2x2GHz and execute java directly would be faster (for java only).</p>
  
  <p>I have Oracle Java, also I used JRockit, but it was strangely crashing during debugging.
  I thing I'l buy i7 desktop in near future. Thanks :)</p>