Memory residence

Wed May 25 16:07:00 GMT 2005

Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Anthony Green wrote:
 > 
 > >I suspect the performance regression is related to our new class loading
 > >scheme.
 > 
 > Yeah, there may well be room for optimization here. But Eclipse is
 > now also doing much more work during startup, since it is now
 > loading its own bytecode and send that to ClassLoader.defineClass()
 > before it gets the native class back.
One really easy optimization here is to import a fast version of MD5.
 > This is fairly memory intensive, plus if there are bottlenecks in
 > the code eclipse is using to do this loading (java.nio?) it could
 > be another source of slowness.
I agree. Our low-level I/O classes are prime targets for a bit of
optimization work!
Andrew.