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As bug 178981 and associated attachment show, calling System.err.flush() frequently is slow: https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=92866 This is not done in the IDE frequently, but when it happens, it can quite negatively affect overall performance of almost any feature.
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Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/5bb93c198fb7 User: Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach@netbeans.org> Log: #179667: Calling System.err.flush in NetBeans is slow Skip waiting if the buffer is already empty