After a lot of trouble with the Eclipse IDE I switched my JVM last night to JRockit and everything seems to be much faster now. If you have a Windows machine and an Intel CPU I can only suggest you to try the same.
I do not know if all settings are completly correct but after trying lots of different configurations this seems the be the best for me. You can find those settings in the eclipse.ini which is located in your Eclipse installation directory.
-vm PATH_TO_JROCKIT_INSTALLATION\bin\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Xms1024M
-Xmx1024M
-XX:PermSize=256M
-XX:MaxPermSize=512M
-XX:+UseParallelGC
After a lot of trouble with the Eclipse IDE I switched my JVM last night to JRockit and everything seems to be much faster now. If you have a Windows machine and an Intel CPU I can only suggest you to try the same.
I do not know if all settings are completly correct but ...