Re: [recommenders-dev] Reverting the documentation provider on completio

[Marcel Bruch <bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

On 17.11.2011, at 20:58, Steve Ash wrote:

I opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=364079 to record the Javadoc provider issues I am experiencing.  I attached two screenshots.  Please let me know if you need additional information.

Thanks. These screenshots look very strange. I had no similar situations like this before. I hope Stefan has some time to look after this soon. 

>  Lastly, (and this is just a perception thing) it seems that my memory usage spikes every time the extdoc comes up -- I turned off the hovers because I was creating tons of garbage.

How big is the memory spike you experience?

Each time a hover window pops up it increases the heap usage by 6-12MB. [...]

Wow. That's too much. A wild guess. Maybe there are some images that get frequently recreated. We'll have to do some memory analysis to identify the cause.

I would love to make time and try to contribute to this.  I think this is one of the most important plugins I have seen in years.  Auto-completion is so important.  It is amazing to me that eclipses auto-completion has been so poor (compared to intelliJ) for this long.  I really love the work you guys are doing. 

Thanks! It's always nice to hear people like it. When you say contributing "to this", do you mean extdoc, or code completion, or code recommenders in general? In any way, your contributions to this would be greatly appreciated. Sebastian and I are currently working on the extdoc provider framework and will make some larger changes for v0.5. 

As you showed interest in subwords, maybe getting the smart code completion for type names to work could be an interesting contributor topic? Pef started to work on this a month ago, but he might be too busy at the moment.

Lastly, if I have two sibling projects (A and B) both with the recommenders nature should I expect to get recommenders suggestions in my autocomplete for classes in A when I;m typing in files in B?

No, generating recommendation models for workspace projects is not yet possible. The team server only supports creating models for jar files. I'm not sure when/if this will be implemented. It would require significant changes to data storage and model generation. We are currently focusing on other areas such as team server, and performance improvements etc.

Thanks for bringing all these things up!

Best,

Marcel