scala REPL is slow on vista

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Published on 2010-06-11T06:52:03Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 6:52 UTC
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I installed scala-2.8.0.RC3 by extracting the tgz file into my cygwin (vista) home directory. I made sure to set $PATH to scala-2.8.0.RC3/bin.

I start the REPL by typing:

$ scala
Welcome to Scala version 2.8.0.RC3 (Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, Java 1.6.0_20).
Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
Type :help for more information.

scala>

Now when I tried to enter an expression

scala> 1 + 'a'

the cursor hangs there without any response. Granted that I have chrome open with a million tabs and VLC playing in the background, but CPU utilization was 12% and virtual memory was about 75% utilized. What's going on ? Do I have to set the CLASSPATH or perform other steps.

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