#Eclipse on mac full#

So I tried searching for it вЂ“ nop, no luck there as well.ДЄpparently eclipse.ini is packaged inside the eclipse app so what you need to do is to get inside the eclipse.app package

I wandered a bit around the eclipse folder looking for the location of the eclipse.ini but it was nowhere to be found. Being desperate, I decided to try that and off I went to try that. In the past while experiencing slowness with Eclipse on Windows, I played with the memory allocation within it to increase the memory cap and this usually helped a bit. Since I am pretty heavy user of Eclipse the slowness of Eclipse quickly grew on me and I started looking for ways to try and do something about it. Hopefully this post can change your mind and help you experience the wonderful world of Eclipse (ok, I am being a little dramatic here).

#Eclipse on mac full#

The thing is, they probably never experienced the full potential of Eclipse вЂ“ a pity. ItвЂ™s Java, so it is supposed to be slow and they just go and hate it and sing how X-Code is great. I bet many people not having experience with Eclipse on other platforms would think this is normal. Working with Eclipse on OS X felt horrendously slow! I had already noticed this nuance in the past and I thought that the Eclipse is just not meant to fly on Mac's (oh wellвЂ¦), especially when there are so many different distributions for OS X, it signals that the project is in a shifting phase basically (it is shifting from Carbon to Cocoa) and that you should expect all kinds of problems. If youвЂ™ve been experiencing horrendous performance of Eclipse on OS X, or maybe you even did not know that Eclipse actually can run very fast, youвЂ™d be surprised to learn that apparently it is very easy to make Eclipse run 4-5 times faster on OS X with proper settings to your eclipse.ini file.