<p><strong>How can you make the experience with Eclipse faster?</strong>  </p>

<p>For instance: <em>I disable all the plugins I don't need (Mylyn, Subclipse, &hellip;).</em></p>

<p>Instead of using a plugin for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial" rel="noreferrer">Mercurial</a>, I configure <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TortoiseHg" rel="noreferrer">TortoiseHG</a> as an external tool.</p>

I give it a ton of memory (add a
```
-Xmx
```
switch to the command that starts it) and try to avoid quitting and restarting it- I find the worst delays are on startup, so giving it lots of RAM lets me keep going longer before it crashes out.