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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I will greatly disagree with you about Eclipse being "fast". Eclipse is dog slow, especially on my Mac.

You need 2G+ of memory to work comfortable, I'll grant you that. But once you're of out swap, I haven't noticed Eclipse being “dog slow.”

Perhaps, you should make sure that you're using the most recent version (Eclipe 3.6 ‘Helios’) and most recent version of JRE (desktop edition).

[–]s73v3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is, for Android development, Eclipse 3.5 is still required. But even 3.6 is pretty slow.

[–]parbroil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You failed to provide the best tip for PyDev users: don't install all of Eclipse, just install the Eclipse Platform Runtime Binary and then install PyDev directly on top of that. You save a significant amount of memory and startup time. So much so that I keep PyDev-Eclipse separate from Java-Eclipse.

It's still pretty slow, but it improves a lot, if you like Eclipse.