Memory residence

Wed May 25 15:53:00 GMT 2005

On Wed, 2005年05月25日 at 09:39 -0400, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> Unfortunately, Eclipse startup isn't all that good in our experience - 
> as you noticed, it is significantly slower than Sun's JVM. I think we 
> can do better. A lot of the startup time is spent in ld.so symbol 
> resolution, which should be drastically reduced once remaining ABI 
> issues are resolved and we can switch to using mostly private symbols.

Eclipse startup was _faster_ with gcj than Sun or IBM JVMs prior to gcj
4.0.
I suspect the performance regression is related to our new class loading
scheme.
AG