Eclipse on OSX == Slooooooooooow

[tatteredpotato]

I've been developing an Android app in eclipse and I must say it can really bring OSX to it's knees (SBBOD constantly). I have a Win7 bootcamp partition and I'm about to start development on there it's so bad. For frame reference it's a 13" MBP (Summer '09).

Anyone else find eclipse slow on OSX?

 

[tatteredpotato]

Okay I suppose I should have done some research first, but there's an easy fix:

I switched this line in the eclipse.ini file (found inside the eclipse application package):

-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
to

-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6

and tab switching was speedy again.

Source

 

[dinkumthinkum]

I find eclipse to be slow on any platform.

 

[troytime]

i find pretty much everything to be slow on OSX, I can't even imagine trying eclipse.

 

[tatteredpotato]

i find pretty much everything to be slow on OSX, I can't even imagine trying eclipse.

Most things aren't too bad, but Eclipse was taking like 20+ seconds to switch tabs (before the fix). It still has some annoying slowdowns, but nothing horrible insofar.

 

[Markbnj]

I'm running XCode in OS/X on a Macbook Pro. Can't say I find it terribly slow, and since I hate the Mac's toy keyboard I'm actually using it via VNC from my Windows box. Overall the performance has been fine.

 

[tatteredpotato]

I'm running XCode in OS/X on a Macbook Pro. Can't say I find it terribly slow, and since I hate the Mac's toy keyboard I'm actually using it via VNC from my Windows box. Overall the performance has been fine.

I actually like the keyboard on my MBP, at least as far a laptop keyboards go.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I find eclipse to be slow on any platform.

It's a big platform but it's not horribly slow. About the same as VS2008, maybe a bit slower.

 

[doh123]

I haven't looked at that fix.. but Eclipse Java and Eclipse C++ both run the same speed for me on OSX as they do on Windows... which isn't fast, but usable.

 

[Markey]

I find eclipse to be slow on any platform.

QFT.

I have to use eclipse at work because our debugger only works in eclipse, but I don't use it for editing. I use Slick Edit for that.

I have better things to do with my time than to wait around for eclipse.