[fareesh]

Is there some sort of secret to getting Eclipse to work without being really slow? Someone once mentioned using the latest Java, but I've yet to give that a try. Frankly it's the only thing that demotivates me from writing Android apps.

[TylerE]

Throw LOTS of RAM at it. 8gb seems to be a good starting point.

[mgkimsal]

I've got 16g with a 256gig SSD and it's still slow.

[batista]

I use to run Eclipse 3 in a 1GB G4 2003 iBook (I now have an 4GB i7), so don't tell me "it's slow" with a modern CPU, 16G and SSD.

[mgkimsal]

Whether something 'runs' vs whether it's 'slow' are entirely different matters. Eclipse still hangs and stutters while using it with generally nothing else of substance running on the machine. It's better under linux than osx, but it's still there. Intellij has far fewer of these hangs/pauses, although it has some too. Looking fwd to java 1.7 to help reduce these issues.