Blog Post looks at Eclipse’ Memory Consumption
Markus Kohler blogged about Analyzing Memory Consumption of Eclipse:
During my talk on May 7 at the Java User Group Karlsruhe about the Eclipse Memory Analyzer I used the latest build of Eclipse 3.4 to show live, that there’s room for improvement regarding the memory consumption of Eclipse.
He goes on to have a closer look at the spell checker and looks at duplicate strings.
Now you may think, that this guy is bashing Eclipse, but that’s really not the case.
If you beg enough, I might also take a closer look at Netbeans :]
If nothing else, it shows how relative simple it is to gain some insights about the memory of your application… 