Intellij Debugger slow: Method breakpoints may dramatically slow down debugging

Question

When I start intellij debugger, it comes the the hint you can see in the screenshot. the debugger takes a lot of time to start. How to solve this problem?

Answer 1

In IDEA 2017.1 Emulated Method Breakpoints were introduced: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/using-breakpoints.html#method_breakpoint They allow using method breakpoints without the performance penalty. Enabled by default.