Performance

Performance refers to both memory consumption and the speed of the application. We should try to prevent FreeMind from becoming significantly less performant as the versions accomodate new features.

Memory consumption

• Of Java virtual machine: some 17 MB on Windows 2000. (To be updated and researched.)
• Of the data objects allocated by FreeMind, above all the node models. (To be detailed and researched.)

Speed

Some people experienced long starts of 0.8.0, for their having a lot of entries in classpath.

In 0.9.0 having many addition icons in ~/freemind/icons slows down the startup

Links

• Performance tuning at Wikipedia
• Task: Memory consumption report for 0.9.0
• Post: Startup takes up to 8 mins -- in Help discussion forum