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Bug 244283

Summary: Rendering of large array in Variables view is time consuming
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Andrew Ferguson <andrew.ferguson>
Component: DebugAssignee: JDT-Debug-Inbox <jdt-debug-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: darin.eclipse
Version: 3.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Andrew Ferguson CLA 2008-08-15 07:33:02 EDT 
hi,

 if you are debugging a stack frame which has large arrays in scope, then the Variables view will attempt to render the large array causing things to slow down a great deal. This problem is solved in the tree section of the Variables view by partitioning the array into intervals. I think being able to add a custom formatter, being able to set a preference for asynchronous rendering of the array or a cut-off value are possible solutions.

thanks,
Andrew
Comment 1 Darin Wright CLA 2009-06-16 13:01:08 EDT 
The view does render variables asynchronously and the details pane does allow a max length of String rendered for selected objects.

Can you provide more detailed steps/example to demonstrate the problem?
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-04-18 07:34:40 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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