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

In order to improve Netbeans startup and build times one should (in this order):

1. Make sure that one has enough free RAM memory (4GB Windows is enough on my 64-bit system)
2. Buy an SSD, it makes all the difference in startup time and build time (my project build time wend from 60 seconds to 6 seconds!)
3. Watch out for the virus scanner, they can slow down random file access considerably (make sure they don’t scan your .java and .class files!)
4. Buy the fastest processor you can get your hands on.