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Re: JVM Usenix paper got rejected
Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> > It was many individual runs. But javac's performance may have been
> > limited by runtime factors anyway... has anybody noticed that libgcj's
> > classloader is far slower than Sun's when reading compressed .jar files?
>
> Doesn't surprise me. There are certainly plenty of opportunities for
> optimizations and cleanups in the classloader stuff. Was the slowness you saw
> actually specific to zip files (and if so, specific to compressed zip files?) or
> was it just slow classloader in general?
IIRC the real slowdown was in reading compressed jar files. If I
extracted classes.zip or rearchived it without compression, class
loading was significantly faster.
Jeff