AIR + ANT + out of memory

I kept running into an OutOfMemoryError issue during compile of my AIR app using ANT.

[mxmlc] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

the fix was simple: set fork="true" and maxmemory="512m" in my mxmlc

<mxmlc compiler.debug="false"
file="${MAIN_SOURCE_FILE}"
output="${dist}/${APP_ROOT_FILE}"
configname="air"
fork="true"
maxmemory="512m"
...

more info can be found here: Flexcoverhints