I have recently installed a new project into my Eclipse and also needed to install some plug-ins to manage it. I also installed other plug-ins which I do not need to manage the project but thought it will be nice to try out.
After this, I noticed that my IDE isn’t as fast to respond as before. I’m not sure if it has something to do with the size of the new project (which is almost 8 times larger than what I had before in my workspace) or the number of plug-ins installed.
Since I can’t do anything about the size of the project, and Christmas has passed and I won’t get new hardware any time soon, I was wondering if there is something I can do about the plug-ins (except uninstall them :P).
Can I configure them as to be lazy loaded whenever I open an associated perspective or view? I’m not sure exactly how they work but I would imagine that this is already the case.
Is there something I can do, plug-in related, to speed up my IDE?
Thank you.
As far as I know, plugins do not impact the overall performance of eclipse unless they are activated.
To be sure, see this SO question
You can create some custom perspective in which you explicitly do not activate some plugins, but once a plugin is used, it will stay active as long as eclipse is opened.
Start first by optimizing your eclipse.ini (see this SO answer for that), and see if the issue remains.