Is there a "good" hardware configuration for liferay development?

[Charalampos Chrysikopoulos，修改在8 年前。]

Perhaps it is a silly question, but is there a hardware configuration for a developer that gives the developer a good speed in his job? Of course the more CPU and memory the better, but it also costs. Where is golden section for a liferay developer that is working with eclipse and a liferay portal running? Is there perhaps mostly a bottleneck because of java?
For example I tried out to use a SSD but I saw no difference at the portal start time, or on the deployments. It was the same slow as with a HD.
Shouldn't there be a way to boost the speed of those waiting times that a liferay developer encounters so many times a day?

[Olaf Kock，修改在8 年前。]

Without having hard numbers, I'd opt for maxing out the budget on memory first (assuming, of course, that the rest of the components are at least decent). As soon as you hit virtual memory, you're toast. I don't even use virtual memory, would rather like to run into an Out-Of-Memory condition than slowing down. Memory doubles as disk buffer, so you might have a point with spinning disk vs SSD, however I've seen great improvements with an SSD. This also depends on the size of projects that you're building.

[David H Nebinger，修改在8 年前。]

Memory + SSD is important, but you can't eliminate other environmental issues.

For example, is the developer using a remote database or a local one? If the former, well then you're only going to be as fast as what that DB allows (network time included in there).

Same way if you're using a remote SOLR instance or a remote LDAP instance, ...

Me, I use a local MySql database server and have enough memory and SSD space so they're quick. I also undeploy unneeded war folders (i.e. if the dev doesn't need kaleo, then strip it out). The only things you have to have are ROOT and marketplace, everything else is optional.

[Andrew Jardine，修改在8 年前。]

I do the same things that David mentioned below. I have some pretty monstrous machines that helps as well but I have found the most effective way to develop quickly with Liferay is to use JRebel (http://zeroturnaround.com/software/jrebel/). This has improved my productivity 10 fold as it basically eliminates the need to deploy on every change. I would higly recommend it. Worth every penny.

[Charalampos Chrysikopoulos，修改在8 年前。]

Thank you all very much for your replies.