Improving Performance Close unused projects in the workspace Eclipse caches files for all open projects in the workspace. Disable Eclipse features which slow things down C/C++ Indexer Description: The indexer uses the parser to create a database of your source and header files that provides the basis for C/C++ search, navigation features and parts of content assist. The indexer runs on a background thread and reacts to resource change events such as: C/C++ project creation/deletion Source files creation/deletion File imports Source file content changes To disable Click menu ‘Windows’ -> ‘Preference’ Expand ‘C/C++’ -> ‘Indexer’ Select ‘No Indexer’ in drop-down menu

Improving Performance Disable Eclipse features which slow things down (con’t) Scalability Description: Scalability options configure how eclipse deals with large source files. Scalability options Editor live parsing – impacts parsing while typing, Outline view, semantic highlighting, folding, etc. Semantic highlighting – C/C++ identifiers are colored Syntax coloring – coloring of keywords, comments and literals Parsing-based content assist proposals – content assist proposals which require parsing the file Content assist auto activation – content assist activated automatically on trigger sequences, like '.', '::' or '->'. To disable: Click menu ‘Windows’ -> ‘Preference’ Expand ‘C/C++’ -> ‘Editor’ -> ‘Scalability’ Uncheck ‘enable scalability options’

Improving Performance Disable Eclipse features which slow things down (con’t) Content Assist Auto Activation Description: Content Assist is a set of tools built into CDT that can reduce the number of keystrokes a developer must type to create code. The Content Assist plug-in consists of several components that forecast what a developer will type, based on the current context, scope, and prefix. To disable Click menu ‘Windows’ -> ‘Preference’ Expand ‘C/C++’ -> ‘Editor’ -> ‘Content Assist’ Uncheck all the options for ‘Auto Activation’