Eclipse GUI speed issue

[Eugeny N Dzhurinsky]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:48:36PM -0700, PSA wrote:
> Alex Pivovarov wrote:
> >I have two OS (Suse 10 and FreeBSD 6.1) on my computer (Athlon-XP
> >1800+, 512Mb, Seagate 7200)
> >
> >Suse has jdk15 + Eclipse 3.2
> >FreeBSD diablo-jdk15 + Eclipse 3.1.2  (both installed from packages)
> >
> >The problem is that Eclipse GUI works a bit slower on FreeBSD that on Suse.
> >for instance:
> >- trees open slower
> >- class creation is slower
> >
> >I mean it's quite fast but it's observably slower than on Suse.
> >
> >I'd say that Eclipse GUI speed is similar on Suse and on Windows but
> >observably slower on FreeBSD.
> >
> >Do you have any idea why it could be.
> 
> It's hard to compare different versions of both the JDK (diablo vs. sun) 
> and Eclipse (3.1.2 vs. 3.2) and call it an OS-related issue.  That said, 
> Eclipse doesn't seem to be well maintained on FreeBSD.  It is kind of 
> annoying that Eclipse decided to hard-wire the OS into the build system, 
> and, of course, they pretended that *BSD didn't exist.
> 
> At the moment this list is dead and Eclipse is not being supported on 
> FreeBSD.  I assume that everyone has other priorities right now, but I'm 
> hopeful that it will get picked up again.  Considering that even my 
> OpenBSD system has a 3.2 port on it, it's hard for me to justify 
> spending more time learning about this codebase to finish updating the 
> port when I could simply move to any other platform for it.
> 
> I am curious, though, as to what happened to the original porter(s) and 
> why they aren't even responding on the list anymore.

http://svn.caraldi.com/trunk/ports/eclipse/

this seems to be working Eclipse 3.2, but I didn't check it out for now, may
be somebody could try this and let us know is it working?

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Eugene N Dzhurinsky