Comments on: Eclipse Line Numbers Not Scrolling On OSX

By: betterwords

betterwords — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:02:54 +0000

no one more nail in the MAC’s coffin

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:36:46 +0000

This issue still exists in Eclipse Helios (3.6) on Snow Leopard 10.6.8. One more nail in this horrible IDE’s coffin.

By: noj

noj — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:17:01 +0000

I owe you, been frustrated with this problem for a while. thanks dude.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:18:05 +0000

Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments – after reading Jose’s comment I decided to give the Carbon release of Galileo a go on SL and following Richard’s advise for using the 32bit Eclipse I’ve discovered that the line numbers are indeed scrolling with the latest Galileo using Carbon.

The part that intrigued me most was Jose’s notice that he’d experienced random freezes and sluggishness with Cocoa, as I’d experienced the same. Indeed, I’d even begun contemplating upgrading the Hard Drive in my MBP. The Carbon release seems to be SIGNIFICANTLY snappier, and uses a LOT less memory. Heap usage is hovering around the 72M mark at the moment, compared to over 200M on Cocoa. I’ll play some more as that may be an aberration simply because I normally use Eclipse all day and it’s only been running for half an hour so far.

Of course, part of that could well be switching from 64bit to 32bit too since that’ll use smaller memory pointers and such like.

But it definitely feels a LOT quicker. And Subclipse without a shadow of a doubt runs faster – it used to sit for ages checking the status of my projects and took about 3 seconds on the Carbon build. No idea why that would be the case!

Thanks for the comments guys.

By: Jose de Castro

Jose de Castro — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:29:41 +0000

Thank you Steve and thank you Richard. Switching to the 32-bit JVM on Snow Leopard cleared up the issue. I started using the Carbon build last month after experiencing random freezes and sluggishness with the Cocoa release. Thanks again!

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:42:48 +0000

I’ve experienced a similar issue on OSX Snow Leopard using Eclipse 3.5 Galileo with Carbon bindings. The reason is that Snow Leopard ships with a 64-bit version of Java 1.6 and the Eclipse carbon version only supports 32 bits. The solution is to edit the eclipse.ini file (in Eclipse.app) and add the following parameter to vmargs: -d32. Hopefully this helps other users.