Eclipse is using an effectively 'cooperating multitasking' scheme where it just hooks lots of events from the main application. If you just install 1 single bad

Eclipse is using an effectively 'cooperating multitasking' scheme where it just hooks lots of events from the main application. If you just install 1 single bad plugin that tries to do synchronous network access it will undoubtedly kill your responsiveness. Lots of plugin based systems have evolved a more resilient way of hosting those modules. DAW applications host hundreds of audio plugins and even browser plugins are sandboxed nowadays.