How to improve Netbeans performance?

Question

Is there a real way to get Netbeans to load and work faster?

It is too slow and gets worse when you have been coding for some time. It eats all my RAM.

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Answer 1

Everyone should note that Sun's Java Virtual Machine for Windows does not use shared memory. This means that the more heap you give to your VM, the more memory it keeps to itself. The advantage of more heap is less garbage-collection, and perhaps faster performance of the Java application you're running, but the downside is that your other applications may have less memory to work with, and your system may feel slower due to this.