Sean Champ's List: Eclipse Platform Notes

• You can create some custom perspective in which you explicitly do not activate some plugins
• optimizing your eclipse.ini (see this SO answer for that)
• Open the Preferences and navigate to General -> Startup and Shutdown
• I suggest you fiddle with the Xmx and Xms parameters for eclipse. Giving Eclipse the maximum memory it can take helps a lot. I set Xmx to 1024M for example, but it can go higher (it does have a cap though, but I can't remember what it is)
• Another parameter to look at is the launcher.XXMaxPermSize.

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