Eclipse, the multi-language open source integrated development environment (IDE), has just received a considerable gift from Google’s Open Source Programs Office: a $20,000 donation to help refine the performance of the latest 4.2 release.
A Friend in Need
This donation wasn’t exactly out of the blue. It was made in direct response to a lengthy discussion on the official Eclipse mailing list, where a number of users reported significant performance issues when using the 4.2 release, compared to identical setups running the older 3.8. Some users even went as far as to claim that the 4.2 release was rushed out, and that it offered no significant improvements over the previous stable releases.
A number of issues were discussed between users and the developers, but one of the core concerns was that the Eclipse developers were no longer running the extensive performance tests that they had done on previous releases. Without these tests, it was difficult to ascertain what impact new features and changes had on the end user experience.
In response to this, Eclipse founding member and UI team leader Mike Wilson posted that the team wanted to run the performance tests, but simply couldn’t at this point in time:
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