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

[Don Clugston]

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.