Memory residence

Wed May 25 15:55:00 GMT 2005

Anthony Green writes:
 > 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 thought Eclipse didn't work with gcj prior to 4.0. At least, not
any recent version of Eclipse.
 > I suspect the performance regression is related to our new class
 > loading scheme.
Maybe so, yes. Time to break out oprofile.
Andrew.