Would you like to speed up eclipse ? Below are some of hard learned tricks that may help you with eclipse slowness.
For several years of programming, I did not know how to speed up eclipse. I always used the default settings of eclipse and never tried to tweak it. Many of my colleagues complained that eclipse is slow and moved to other IDEs, however I chose to do more research and tried to find ways to improve eclipse performance.
I have seen many programmers who use Eclipse on variety of different languages and platforms.
A lot of people do not know that Eclipse is a multi language general-purpose platform. Eclipse does much more than any Java IDE can do. It's also commonly used as an application framework, and as development platform for popular languages like PHP, C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python and shell scripting.
Eclipse has a large plugin repository with really powerful set of plugins. As we start using our eclipse setup more and more we require even more set of plugins to be productive. This is quite natural, however having a lot of plugins in one eclipse setup makes it a really fat application with a lot of things to be done at the same time.
At times you may be stuck with a badly written plugin that may affect whole of you eclipse setup.
It is very obvious that this powerful tool can do a lot of things for us. In this article I am trying to compile all the list of things I have personally learned and used for keeping my eclipse setup best performing.