macos - Eclipse IDE speed sluggish on Snow Leopard Macbook

Question

I've recently installed eclipse 3.4 on mac for java and flex coding - I noticed that the eclipse IDE on a mac is much slower than on a PC. By slow, I mean the UI and text editing seems to lag in comparison to eclipse in a windows environment or on a PC.

Are there any tricks to getting eclipse more responsive on macosx?

Answer 1

My suggestions:

• Use 3.5
• Use Cocoa version (instead of Carbon)
• Make sure you use the Java 6 64bit