Eclipse startup time (Was: questions on PhanTango 'merger' (was Merging Tangobos into Tango)

[torhu]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>> Don Clugston Wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any idea what's wrong with Eclipse? Why is the startup so 
>>>> unbelievably slow?
>>>> Seems to be about 25,000 million clock cycles!
>>>> (Is this typical of Java apps? It's the almost the only Java app I've 
>>>> ever used).
>>>> What on earth is it doing? (Genuine question, not a flame).
>>>
>> 
>> What Eclipse version and bundle are you using? Have you installed any 
>> extra plugins? What is your starting perspective? What is your PC specs, 
>> and Java VM version?
>> And what do you mean by "unbelievably slow" ? (Give me a measure in 
>> seconds :) )
> 
> 80 seconds on a 1GHz Pentium M laptop. Standard Eclipse C++ download.
> That's more than 4 times longer than my text editor needed on my Commodore 64, 
> loaded from an audio cassette tape.

I've got the CDT download too, plus Descent.  JRE 1.6u1, 1.3 GHz Athlon 
tbird.  Eclipse starts up and loads an empty D workspace in 23 seconds. 
  Probably faster if I disable cdt, cvs, etc.  You can try going into 
help->software updates->manage configuration and disabling everything 
except platform, rcp, and descent, and see if that helps.

I've got a relatively fast HD, plus a cpu that's probably a bit faster 
than yours.  And possibly faster transfer between the cpu and RAM too. 
I guess eclipse just wasn't made for old laptops.  But once it's done 
loading, I think it makes up for the wait.  Try pressing ctrl+O, ctrl+1, 
or ctrl+3.  I'm sorry if you knew this already. :)

MSVC 6 starts in 2-3 seconds, but has pretty limited D support on the 
other hand.