RE: [platform-core-dev] Re: New platform NLS support

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Burnette wrote on 22/02/2005 06:29:36 PM:

> Your results indicate this saves memory at run time, but I was 
> wondering what impact would all the new Java elements have on plug-
> in development. The JavaModel Cache is using a ton of memory as it
> is, and I'm worried this might add more stress on that when you are
> working with a big Java project like Eclipse itself. See http://www.
> eclipsepowered.org/archives/2004/11/30/eclipse-grand-challenges/#comment-652.

Well, those are two very different issues.  The
new bundles save memory usage for the end-user of the plugin.  You're
talking about the memory cost to the developer of the plugin.  An
extra class in each plugin with a couple of hundred fields isn't going
to break the bank in a large plugin with a few thousand classes.  Reducing
JDT memory footprint is important, but really unrelated to this resource
bundle API.  If you have ideas for JDT performance improvements or
just have more profiling results, I suggest raising it on the jdt-core-dev
mailing list - I for one would be interested in a discussion in that area.

John.