Major Description
The ClassHelper class in almost all cases creates class nodes for its static fields using the makeWithoutCaching method. There are 2 exceptions: Annotation and Enum. My understanding is that this is a holdover from the pre-Java5 days. The problem is that this has huge memory ramifications on Groovy-Eclipse. So, I would like to see this changed.
See this branch for what I am talking about:
https://github.com/aeisenberg/groovy-core/tree/ClassHelper-ClassNode-generation