Will "Performance" (and stability) sometime appear in NetBeans roadmap?

Peter Hansson wrote:
> I have about 40 large projects open in NetBeans IDE at the same time. I do not have performance issues.
> For me the trick has been to allocate sufficient memory to NetBeans IDE. I'm currently allowing it to take (up to) 4 GB of memory which is probably an overkill, but nevertheless. The disk where the projects reside is local and based on SSD.  I suspect that if your projects are on a network share then you are really shooting yourself in the foot.
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I'm using Intel i7 with everything on SSD drive (not a surprise nowadays :)), so I think your trick is already in use by mostly everyone. Last project I've tried to open fits into 500MB of memory out of allocated 1GB (this is taken from NB self-profiler metrics). So ... performance issue goes from NetBeans itself (plus Windows - it provides rather low performance for reading of file attributes and listing files/folders - it looks like Windows file cache is not so 'cachy' :(, but actual reason IMHO is design decisions within NetBeans)

I tried to fix some issues for myself in my local codebase of NB - quick and dirty fixes do work, though are not rather reliable for all users and need extensive testing. I've shared some ideas in Bugzilla. 

But major thing I have to say - NetBeans requires significant refactoring in same places. This definitely will take some significant effort and there is dilemma as usual - what the priory is - "quality/performance/stability" or "new functionality" (Java9 is scheduled for release in 3-4 month ... need to catch up ...). I feel NetBean's team is too small for the size of the project and having no commercial support can't grow as much as really needed, thats why to keep up with new functionality, performance always gets only 'idle ticks', which are close to zero ....