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See the bugdb for details: "Used IDE profiler to memory profile IDE itself. It takes a very long time to start, around ten minutes - this makes it almost unusable for large projects like this."
Created attachment 124348 [details] Initial prototype
This issue was partially fixed by fixing of issue #217458 (implementation of memory sampler) thus this issue is not so important now
Fixed in NetBeans 8.1.