Re: Implementing Eclipse's "organize-imports" in Emacs Lisp

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     Assuming it does not exist, I'd be inclined to create a Java
>     application to run in the background which provides an IPC mechanism
>     to talk to Emacs Lisp.
>
> What causes the "startup overhead"?  Is it loading a large analysis
> program?  Is it parsing and analyzing your program?

I don't how much of it is the GUI bits (which presumably Emacs wouldn't
use), but the normal Eclipse app is _extremely_ slow just to start, even
before you load a project.

Of course it _also_ consumes vast amounts of memory, which make having a
persistent process around a bit less inviting ... :-(

-Miles

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