Using the Android SDK on a Mac, Eclipse is really slow. How can I speed it up?

Question

I\'m using Eclipse + the Android SDK on a Mac running Snow Leopard to develop Android apps.

Thing is, Eclipse is really slow - like, it \"beach balls\" for a few sec

Answer 1

I've been running Eclipse under a virtual machine. I've found VMWare to provide the best performance, but VirtualBox is the only one that consistently displays WebGL correctly in the browser (if that is important to you).

For the record, a virtual machine running Windows or Linux yields better Eclipse performance than running Eclipse on OSX. I've tried all of those settings and the tab switching speed is just too slow. I did some timings and it's just not something I can work with as it drives me absolutely crazy.

Configuration:

• OSX 10.7.5
• 4GB Ram
• 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo