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Recently we started migration of our plugins to Eclipse 3.0. We noticed that the performance is comparable slower when using 3.0 plugins than it is with the 2.1 plugins. The plugin.xml of our main plugin id around 75k size and it needs around 20 seconds to compile. The build progress shows "Verifying .../plugin.xml". It's interesting that this was noticable faster when developing against 2.1 plugins (imported as binary projects) using 3.0 RC1.
Note thatt binary plug-ins do/should not get validated at all by the PDE builder. That is why you saw a big difference between binary and non-binary projects. That 20 seconds was taken up to validate how many plugin.xml files? what sizes? We do validate every attributes and we do call the Java model to verify that every class you list exists, etc. So if we are dealing with large plugin.xml files, then it might just be that it is a fact of life that it will 20 seconds.
20 seconds just for the one (75k) file. Not to mention the others that it validates.
Created attachment 11694 [details] Screenshot of progress view This screenshot show the build is verifying plugin.xml of jdt.ui plug-in. According to you comment, this should not happen because jdt.ui is imported as binary project (with real content, not with linked content). However, verifying of jdt.ui plugin.xml (binary project) took 34 seconds which is a lot more time that the Java build needs for a project of comparable size. It's also noticable that the progress indicator also stays the same amount of time at a fixed possition which leads me to say it cann't be just a forgotten progress monitor update. Don't know. P4 2.8 Ghz hHyperthreading CPU. The PC is usually fast (example: it only takes 14 second to build a full feature zip with all 3 plugins (around 100 classes) using the generated build files and ANT (from within Eclipse).
The fact that a binary project was being validated is a bug that was addressed today (bug 65578). I never claimed that the builder's performance is optimal. I was just enquiring how slow it is for you.
*** Bug 66198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66228 ***
