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

[Don Clugston]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>> Like I said, it wasn't a flame, and in this post I was not 
>> particularly seeking to improve the startup time on my system. I'm 
>> simply astonished that a programming community (the Eclipse 
>> developers) obviously does not care about performance issues _at all_. 
>> I had no intuition about what initialization you could do that would 
>> take such a long time.
>>
> 
> I don't get this fixation people have with startup time. :/

You're not listening!!
I have never seen a program which took as long to start up, as Eclipse does. 
It's really extraordinarily slow.
You're saying, "but it doesn't matter". I don't care.
My question was, what on earth is it doing?
Because while it's OK for an IDE to have such a long startup time, most other 
types of programs couldn't get away with it. And so my question was whether that 
startup time is a feature of Java/Swing/whatever, or simply due to the way 
Eclipse is written.