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Dude, Eclipse is a guy.
Dude, Eclipse is a guy.
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Eclipse is a Java program, that’s like asking someone whether their hand is male or female. 
Mine are transgendered. 8)
I have just downgraded to Eclipse Indigo 3.7 because it was way too slow on my desktop computer, even when typing, it was a real nightmare. I hope Eclipse 3.9 will be better.
Looks like Google has made a donation to the Eclipse foundation to help with performance testing.
Personally I like the bright theme, and I have noticed a slow down on my laptop. One thing that does seem slower though is when i try to switch workspaces. Once the window for the old workspace disappears, it can take forever (~10 seconds) for the window to pop up with the new workspace.
Hi folks ! I’m the Eclipse 4 (Juno) dev lead…this is one of the most interesting Juno threads I’ve found so far (likely thanks to the screening done by your account registration quiz…;-).
I figured I should jump in with a few comments…Juno is marginally slower than Indigo for most scenarios but just by a few %. There are configurations that do experience more serious performance issues though (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=385272 for details). We’re working away at these issues and SR1 (just out) covers some but not all of them (as well as containing a fix to allow detached windows to be maximized…).
In any case thanks for the input and feel free to open defects about anything you think is really bad.
I think that once all serious performance issues are solved, you should seriously consider to change the name of the release.
IMHO, the name “Juno” is tainted now, and will be ‘forever’ associated with sluggish behavior.
My $0.02 !
I have to say, personally it needs a ‘turn off the lights’ function for those long night of strain-full programming where everything can be nicely darkened to at least a grayish style.
That is what I believe would improve Eclipse.
If you’re looking for a “turn off the light” or dark scheme for Eclipse, I made this theme for the Eclipse Color Theme plugin a while back. If you don’t want to install the plugin then you can just download the .epf (Eclipse Preferences File) for it. 
So soothing… it’s like someone massages my eyes with oil :point:
I’ll get that
My major gripe with 4.2 (auto-complete being slow to pop up and load) isn’t fixed in SR1 
Pops up much faster in Eclipse 3.8.
I find hippie completion to be 5x or more slower than Java completion. Hippie completion should be faster, that is the whole point to it – to quickly complete some text you know is nearby without having to look at a popup and choose an item. I find myself using ctrl+space,enter because hippie completion is too slow, and this makes me sad. 
I was going to but didn’t mention, without the need to reply on the communit / plugins
just to note: there was an update for Juno SR1 and afterwards most of my performance problems (such as switching between open files lagging for a second) happen to be gone.
Still hideous though, no?
Cas 
Yes.
I already use Kepler and it contains a fix for my problem occurring on text edition lol, it was so slow in the past.
Not with the classic look
Not all performance problems are gone though, the CSS editor is still a turd. And for some reason the application has huge graphical glitches when dragging around file tabs (to re-order them). I actually managed to make the entire screen go black for like 5 seconds by just dragging and dropping a tab
Oh, I can get it to do that in 3.7+
Cas
Weird, I didn’t have that until Juno. Are you using a Windows version? I’ve seen Juno (even before SR1) running on a colleague’s Macbook and it is flawless.