For those lucky customers out there that have been evaluating or playing with the customer releases of the up-coming 3.0.0 release, you might have noticed the default setup is a bit slow to start.
I was playing with my eclipse.ini file parameters and got mine to start 5x faster with these settings, maybe they will help you too:
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.200.v20090519
-vmargs
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:-UseParallelGC
-XX:+AggressiveOpts
-XX:-UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-Dosgi.bundles=reference:file:org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator_1.0.101.R35x_v20090807-1100.jar@1:start,org.eclipse.equinox.transforms.xslt@1:start,org.jboss.tools.equinox.transforms.xslt@1:start