Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel

Faster startup of the Eclipse IDE by 600ms

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Good news for everyone using Eclipse with Maven: your IDE now starts about 600ms faster.

While building its menus at startup, Eclipse activated the m2e UI plug-in, which then waited on a lock held by a background job. The result was a frozen UI thread for about 600ms on every start. The details are in m2e-core issue #2237.

We found it with our tracing tools, by sampling thread dumps during startup. Thanks to the m2e team.

Make your application faster too

The same tools are available to you. Our Performance and memory optimization service profiles your Java or Eclipse RCP application under realistic load and fixes what slows it down.

Request it here or write to sales@vogella.com.

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