[platform-help-dev] size limitations on documentation plugins?

[Erik Hennum <ehennum@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Eclipse Help Folk:

Are there any estimates for threshholds at which a documentation plugin
should be split into multiple documentation plugins to improve performance?

Is it an issue of the size of doc.zip and, if so, what's the approximate
maximum size before performance degradation?

Or of the number of files in doc.zip and, if so, what's the approximate
maximum number?

If the documentation plugin contains some large files (such as supplemental
PDF files, Flash animations, or large bitmaps), could degradation be
prevented by placing these large files outside doc.zip in the directory?

Or does the issue concerns the total size or number of files in the
documentation plugin (so doc.zip is orthagonal)?

By the way, Is the main reason to put files inside doc.zip to minimize disk
occupation for compressable files?  Or does it improve access time when
navigating across many files?


Thanks in advance,


Erik Hennum
ehennum AT us DOT ibm DOT com