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Increase the amount of memory available to Eclipse to improve performance.

It’s easy to do but hard to find.  I found this great eclipse tip on Dan Florio’s blog.

Edit eclipse.ini in the root of your Eclipse installation, change the two highlighted lines:

-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
–launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms256m
-Xmx512m
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

He also has some other great tips on his post, check it out.