Eclipse: Closing Projects
Posted by Max Dunn Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:25:00 GMT
Eclipse is known to be a memory hog and slow at starting up and shutting down. Especially if yo have a lot of projects with a lot of files, it can be painfully slow to start. A friend of mine took a programming class where they had exams using Eclipse. All the students made sure they started Eclipse well before class, otherwise they joked that it would take half of the exam time just for Eclipse to start!
Today, I discovered something that helps speed up Eclipse. If you right-click on the projects that you aren’t actively working on and “close” them, Eclipse won’t try to load them into the workspace. This helps not only with the startup and shutdown times, but also when it refreshes the workspace.