Memory residence

Wed May 25 04:16:00 GMT 2005

From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
> shudo@computer.org writes:

> > I measured the time to start up Eclipse 3.1M6 with Sun JDK, IBM JDK
> > and GCJ 4.0 on a linux computer. GCJ 4.0 and a compiled version of
> > Eclipse is part of development version of Fedora Core 4.
> >
> > Sun JDK 1.5.0_03: a little over 11 sec.
> > IBM JDK 1.4.2 SR1a: 15 sec.
> > GCJ 4.0: 27 sec.

> > Anyway, GCJ-compiled native binary took much time to start up.
>> For what it's worth, we haven't been able to duplicate this. Our
> tests have shown the startup time of Eclipse under gcj to be good.

I got the numbers on Linux running on VMware and VMware affected the
numbers. I got similar results even on Linux running directly on
another computer:
 Sun JDK 1.5.0_03: 8 sec
 IBM JDK 1.4.2 SR1a: 10.5 sec
 GCJ 4.0: 19 sec
 Kazuyuki Shudo	shudo@computer.org	http://www.shudo.net/