Eclipse faster auto refresh

Question

I use Eclipse to run my application only. I use an external editor (Atom) for my main development. I turned on \"Refresh using native hooks or polling\" to have Eclipse refresh

Answer 1

There is no configuration that changes the operation of the polling refresh used on the Mac (org.eclipse.core.internal.refresh.PollingMonitor).

The refresh runs much quicker on Windows because it uses file system native hooks rather than polling.