Memory residence

Tue May 24 04:05:00 GMT 2005

shudo@computer.org wrote:
> Anyway, GCJ-compiled native binary took much time to start up.
> Can it be improved somehow?

My understanding is that most of this is due to shared library loading 
and resolution of symbols. A lot of this is because reflective data
structures containing lots of pointers. The hope is that the compiler
will generate a compressed mostly-pointer-free representation,
which can be expanded lazily at run-time when needed.
However, I don't believe we have a concrete design or timeline
for this.
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