Re: [cdt-dev] CDT Build - What does "Updating Project..." actually do ?

[John Camelon <jcamelon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, the platform group have put some
fixes into 3.1M4 which improves the UI availability for file systems that
have expensive refresh/stating.  
Your CM system may be responsible for
this.
Ref: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=74392

JohnC
www.eclipse.org/cdt

cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/03/2004 02:50:45
PM:

> While progress monitor displaying this message, Eclipse refreshes
> project. Actually, Make Builder cannot guess which files in the project
> were modified during the build session., so it applies refreshLocal
to 
> the whole project, which is a time consuming operation for a big 
> project, like in your case. At the first glance there is some space
for 
> optimization,. For example, maybe being a low priority operation,
> refreshing can be done out of the UI thread to avoid user waiting
of its 
> completion.  But I'm afraid to make any estimations about performance
> improvement.
> 
> cebarne2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >All,
> >
> >Some of our users of the CDT are complaining about poor performance.
> >Well,
> >there are many contributors to this, but one in particular is
a
> >post-build
> >delay. After the makefile has been built, the build continues
to run for
> >a
> >while with the "Updating Project..." message.  What
is it doing?  With
> >some
> >of our projects, even if trivial builds, this can take 30 seconds
or
> >longer
> >(granted, there are a lot of files in the project).
> >
> >For this particular project, there may be 500 C/C++ files, but
only a
> >handful are used for the build.  There are likely thousands
of files
> >total.
> >These files are coming from a linked resource.  It is a standard
make
> >project.
> >
> >If I can determine what is occuring at this time, I can begin
to
> >eliminate
> >bottlenecks (is it the network, the CM system, etc?).
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Chad Barnes
> >Rockwell Collins, Inc.
> >
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