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I’ve seen this claim before, that Eclipse is slow, but I had not experienced the issue quite so personally before. Most of my Eclipse development to date had been small components to other projects, or in one case a project that might have been about one thousand files. Now I am trying to turn a project that comprises some 40,000 files into an Eclipse project(s) and it is not going as I hoped. Subclipse takes tens of minutes in some operations, the Binary Search (CDT?) that gets started on Eclipse launch takes about 5 minutes. And for other reasons, the integrated gdb view does not seem to be working with the executable because of a time out during launch; though this could be a simple configuration problem. In any case, it looks like I’ll have to spend much more time breaking the project into small bits, which should be done anyway, I had just hoped to start building and debugging before I had to do house keeping.

I know that Subversion can handle the project size, and I know that make is suitable for the level of complexity involved in building everything, I just want to put it all in a nice integrated environment for those of us that would prefer not to use gdb from the command line, or who would like to use the refactoring tools in Eclipse rather than grep and sed!