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July 11, 2005
Eclipse 3.1 is slow!
I've eagerly updated to the latest (and greatest?) version of Eclipse as soon as it was available. According to the change logs the most promissing change for this version is performance.
Now, after several days using this version, I'm really really disappointed. It's as slow as always and sometimes (still) unusable. Starting Eclipse sometimes takes upto 8 minutes, the whole IDE often hanges for minutes inbetween and everything else does not feel faster. So all the charts showing how fast 3.1 is do not help me at all as a user!
The next annoying thing is there are several minor bugs in it, but more important: no subversion support and no XML support!
Are those two features so uncommon these days? I think: no. But wait a minute, you can download the new web tools project (hundreds of mega bytes to download, great!) and there is Subclipse of course. Both are really very good plugins, but why do I have to download and install them separately? What is more needed a Java Editor or an XML Editor? The first one is "integrated" while the second one has to be downloaded and installed. Hmpf.
Ah, and don't use the M5 release of the web tools project, use the integration build from last friday. Copy and paste of XML snippets doesn't alyways work in M5 which is really annoying.
In the end, seeing Eclipse 3.1 from a user perspective without being carried away by all this fancy technology bla bla and how cool the new architecture is bla bla, it's a somehow disappointing release: it's still slow as hell (sometimes) and important features have to be downloaded separately. So again, I'm waiting for the next release fixing at least the performance problems...
Posted by cziegeler at July 11, 2005 07:54 AM