How to speed up IntelliJ on Mac OS X 10.9

Question

I'm using Mac OSX 10.9 and Intellij Idea 13 on a decked out machine (7i processor, 16GB RAM, 64 bit, etc.). I have things working well; however, it seems to me that Intellij is running pretty slow (approx. 5 mins to boot up, almost a full 2 minutes to compile a system out print line class, etc.). As a frame of reference I have looked through numerous posts and have landed on the configurations below. My question is this. Does anyone else use a similar set up and have it running quicker? If so, what modifications have you made to your environment to speed things up. Thanks in advance for any help.

Java Version:

Switched from jdk1.6 to jdk1.7

idea.vmoptions:

-ea
-server
-Xms1g
-Xmx1g
-Xss16m
-XX:PermSize=512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:LargePageSizeInBytes=256m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=96m
-XX:+UseCodeCacheFlushing
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-XX:ParallelGCThreads=8
-XX:+UseParNewGC
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+DisableExplicitGC
-XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent
-XX:+PrintGCDetails
-XX:+PrintFlagsFinal
-XX:+AggressiveOpts
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-XX:+CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=60
-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled
-XX:+UseAdaptiveGCBoundary
-XX:+UseSplitVerifier
-XX:CompileThreshold=10000
-XX:+UseCompressedStrings
-XX:+OptimizeStringConcat
-XX:+UseStringCache
-XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods
-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions

info.plist (modification):

<key>LSArchitecturePriority</key>
<array>
  <string>x86_64</string>
</array>

  <key>JVMVersion</key>
  <string>1.7*</string>

Answer 1

I strongly suggest you not to use all these VM options (especially those controlling garbage collector) unless you actually measure they will improve performance. Please report reproducable performance problems as described here https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/29983118-Reporting-performance-problems