on my Mac debugging in Eclipse is extremly slow. With slow I mean stepping through the code. Every step (even if it is only multiline string-concatenation) takes about 1-2 seconds. When I compare that to eclipse running on Windows, that is just painful!
I'm using Eclipse Kepler with Sun JDK 1.7.0_45 (as Eclipse Runtime and Program Runtime). Switching to Apple JDK 6 did not change that much. Is there anything that I can do about that?
Edit:
What I'm trying to do is to debug a local application using Debug As > Java Application.
My eclipse.ini is looking like this:
-startup
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar
-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
--launcher.library
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_1.1.200.v20130807-1835
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.IEVersion=10001
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-Xms40m
-Xmx2048m
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
Increase the amount of memory for your JVM. Open eclipse.ini from the following path:
Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini
. Edit the following variables like so. Replace 1.6 with your version of Java.
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion = 1.6
-Xms128m
-Xmx1024m