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- Increase your min/max memory settings (see above link for more info) from 40/256 to 128256/384512 or higher. You might have to experiment with the min/max setting but increasing the initial memory heap to 128 when Eclipse starts should help.
- Disable the code folding feature (e.g., auto-hiding of import statements). Go to
Eclipse > Preferences > Java > Editor > Folding
and uncheck "Enable Folding" checkbox. - Disable Code Assist Auto-Activation. This means no more code assist popups when you type "." to invoke a list of class method/properties. Go to
Eclipse > Preferences > Java > Editor > Code Assist
and uncheck Auto-Activation checkbox. - If you are using MyEclipse's plugins you might consider disabling (temporarily until you get more memory) it's many validators
Eclipse > Preferences > MyEclipse > Validation
. The DTD, HTML, JSP, XML validators all use up memory and can slow the system down.
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