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Build 200409121800 HW 2x Pentium III 500 Mhz, 384 MB RAM I performed NB/JDK installer testing on my box with mentioned configuration. Time to invoke first InstallShield Panel: 1) 2:19 min 2) 1:35 min restart PC and waited 5 min 3) 2:18 min Installer was executed locally. No other daemons didn't run on PC and didn't touch mouse.
Please check with NB installer. I checked NB installer most of time is spent by parsing project xml. So difference is spent on uncompressing bundled JVM to temp dir. On my testing machine Win XP, 860MHz, 384RAM it takes 1m:30s. I do not think we can do anything with it.
With NB installer I got these results: 1) 00:18 2) 00:20 3 after restart 00:20 I think that starting time is very important for first user's experience with NetBeans.
On Windows if we move to MSI installer we save time and space necessary to uncompress bundled JVM.
With current installer technology we cannot fix this issue. (On Windows things could get better if we would move to MSI installer type but currently we do not have resources to do that. But it does not help for other platforms.) Main reason is that native launcher must uncompress/copy over 200MB of data (JRE ~ 100MB of data, setup.jar ~ 100MB it is jar installer itself which is copied to tmp dir first before installer GUI is started).