Why is IDEA so slow during debugging?

I had two breakpoints on the method name instead of the first line of the method. It was taking a half hour to get to the breakpoint. Changing these to line breakpoints reduced the time to less than one minute.

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  1. ip said

    Not only IDEA. Eclipse too.
    Here’s why:
    http://pitfalls.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/java-debug-101/

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