As a quick follow-up to my previous post on the NetBeans Feature on Demand, I was thinking about how nice it would to further optimize the NetBeans startup time (via module unloading).

When NetBeans loads, it processes and loads each module that is active. To speed up this process I manually uninstall modules I know I will never use, as well as deactivating modules I use infrequently. It would be nice if the IDE could monitor and do this for me.

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