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What's the best settings for Eclipse 3.5.2 on Windows 7 64 bit? I've read What are the best JVM settings for Eclipse?, but nowhere 64 bit system was mentioned. Eclipse 3.5.2 runs pretty slow on my 8GB windows 7 64 bit box. Thanks in advance!


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Good point. I will address that in my next answer in that same "best JVM" question for eclipse3.6 Helios ;) –  VonC Jun 9 '10 at 17:09
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I've had to use compressed oops when running eclipse on 64 bit operating systems in general. See Ismael Juma's blog post on the subject. For Sun JVMs this means adding -XX:+UseCompressedOops to your JVM args in the eclipse.ini.

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Start by making sure you're using a 64bit JVM. Other than that, there should be no special settings needed.

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