[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Launching Eclipse without the eclipse binary

["John J. Barton" <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just an experience point: this is the only way I run eclipse so I can 
change the VM startup parameters and (very rarely) see a console error.
Achille wrote:
> Greetings
> While trying to discover why eclipse was taking so long to load (1.5+
> minutes, I found something interesting: Eclipse loads just fine by
> simply $ java -jar startup.jar
>
> On top of that the startup time is aproximately ~7 seconds. Certain
> plugins seem to work fine (Vi/BIRT/MyEclipse)
> While the initial heap is fairly small, it should not be a problem to
> add extra params for that.
>
> Two questions:
> a) Is this safe? 
> b) what does the eclipse binary really do? Where are the docs for the
> binary?