Never looked at the source code for Eclipse, but I'm guessing it does a lot of parsing and linking on source code and reads the same file multiple times while d

Never looked at the source code for Eclipse, but I'm guessing it does a lot of parsing and linking on source code and reads the same file multiple times while doing random access to other files. So a decent SSD with good random read speed makes all of that basically instant, while on a slow 5000 rpm laptop hdd it's going to take minutes. In the long run everything will be using SSDs so maybe it won't matter in a couple years? Can see it now: Developer headlines in 2019. "Have you checked out this never before seen IDE called Eclipse? It's blazing fast!"