ErlIDE for low-memory machines

If you are like me and have been using only occasionally because of the memory requirements of Eclipse. To be absolutely honest added to runs too slowly for my tastes on my Mac mini. I felt like I would have to upgrade my RAM just to run it tolerably. This is due to a combination of Eclipse's gradually growing system requirements and my extreme performance expectations arising from using an 8-core 64-bit workstation with 8GB of RAM at work.

I took a minimalist approach knowing that Eclipse piles around twenty auxiliary features for useful, but non-essential (for ) things like Java, ANT, web, CVS, XML and task-focused UI support. Basing my new on the bare Eclipse 3.4 Platform Runtime yielded a much snappier experience and significantly less physical and virtual memory usage.

So in summary, if you want a speedier on a lower-end machine do the following:
Download
Run Eclipse
Install through Help->Software Updates...