Java > Scala

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-04 06:09, Somedude wrote:
> Le 04/12/2011 03:40, Don a écrit :
>> If you work in an environment where practically all apps are fast,
>> Eclipse stands out as being slow. The startup time is particularly
>> striking.
>> I don't see any reason for this. Mostly when you open an IDE you want to
>> first open a few files, look at them, maybe do some editing.
>> It ought to be possible to do that within 2 secs of starting the IDE,
>> while everything else continues to load.
>> It's unusual to perform a major refactoring of your code base within 10
>> secs of opening your IDE, but it seems you can't do anything at all,
>> until everything has been loaded.
>>
>
> I stopped bothering to respond to Nick Sabalausky, as obviously, he is
> not trying to discuss, he just throws his opinions around without any
> substance.
>
> As for startup time, who cares really, as you open it only once and
> leave it open afterwards ? As Jonathan and I have said now at least 3
> times, you don't close it as it's your primary tool. And the reason it's
> slow is, at startup time, it loads:
> - the GUI toolkit SWT and the interface manager
> - the customized interface (called "perspective" in eclipse)
> - hundreds of plugins
> - the compiler
> - your open projects
> - all the files that were open last time
>
> As you may have noticed, almost all the tools that have their own non
> native GUI toolkit are slower to load. Any Gtk tool for instance. Even
> worse when you have plugins. Try to start the Gimp or Photoshop, and
> tell me if it's fast.

Eclipse uses SWT as its GUI toolkit which uses native widgets.

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/Jacob Carlborg