Bug 37715 - [plan item] Improve plug-in registry
Summary: [plan item] Improve plug-in registry
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Runtime (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P4 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.1 M4   Edit
Assignee: DJ Houghton CLA
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Reported: 2003-05-15 11:48 EDT by Jim des Rivieres CLA
Modified: 2005-01-06 11:41 EST (History)
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Description Jim des Rivieres CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2005-01-06 11:40:46 EST 
Reopening to mark fixed.
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 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 CLA 2005-01-06 11:41:46 EST 
Done. The registry now uses weak references, and loads portions lazily from disk
as required.