If you have lots and lots of stuff open, the first thing to look at is increasing Eclipse's Java RAM heap. If it starts getting close to the heap limit, performance takes a dive.
I regularly have three copies of the entire Android code base open in my Eclipse workspace (currently Gingerbread, Honeycomb, and Ice Cream Sandwich), and on my Mac laptop I can make this usable by careful fiddling with things like the Java heap limit (to get it as high as possible, around 650MB, before the whole thing just fails to boot for some reason), turning off automatic compiling (this is maybe mostly an issue with how big a single Android project is) and turning off auto-refreshing of files. It still doesn't feel fast... in fact it feels like typical desktop "let's put abstraction/overhead everywhere" Java code... but it's usable. Here's info on changing Eclipse.ini to modify the heap size: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini <http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini>Gotta love Java. :) On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:47 AM, bob <[email protected]> wrote: > How often do people typically change their workspace in Eclipse? > > I've been using one workspace for about six months now. It has about > 40 projects in it, and Eclipse is slow as molasses. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
