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Bug 37715

Summary:	[plan item] Improve plug-in registry
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	pascal
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.1 M4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Jim des Rivieres

2003-05-15 11:48:25 EDT

Improve plug-in registry. The Eclipse plug-in registry is an in-memory 
structure directly proportional in size to the aggregate size of the plug-in 
manifest files across all installed and configured plug-ins. Since much of the 
information in the plug-in registry is consulted only once, this wastes memory 
and scales badly. The plug-in registry should instead reside on disk and have 
a bounded in-memory footprint. [Platform Core]

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2004-04-15 10:47:48 EDT

As per the 3.0 plan, this item is deferred to post 3.0.

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2005-01-06 11:40:46 EST

Reopening to mark fixed.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2005-01-06 11:41:34 EST

Done. The registry now uses weak references, and loads portions lazily from disk
as required.

Comment 4 John Arthorne

2005-01-06 11:41:46 EST

Done. The registry now uses weak references, and loads portions lazily from disk
as required.