I observed that the new version of Eclipse appears to occasionally underperform (to put it lightly) and just sit there consuming 25% of the CPU cycles. The following Eclipse startup parameters appear to have helped:
-vmargs -Xverify:none -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:PermSize=20M -XX:MaxNewSize=32M -XX:NewSize=32M -Xmx256m -Xms256m
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-vmargs -Xverify:none -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:PermSize=20M -XX:MaxNewSize=32M -XX:NewSize=32M -Xmx256m -Xms256m
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