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Re: benchmark results [again]
- From: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>
- To: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:24:08 +0530
- Subject: Re: benchmark results [again]
- References: <1107436218.25365.12.camel@chronos.inria.fr> <4203EF8C.1040703@redhat.com>
Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>
> Its great to see that GCJ is competitive here! Note that with this sort
> of runtime, startup time can be a significant factor in your results,
> and GCJ should always beat JITs there. It might be interesting to see
> what happens with a larger data sets and thus longer runtimes. On some
> benchmarks I've noticed that GCJ wins easily on smaller data sets but
> Sun's Hotspot VM gains back the lead as the runtimes increase and it has
> more time to optimize.
FWIW, the new JRE (1.5.0, J2SE 5, Java 5, <whatever>) has
a feature called Class Data Sharing (CDS) that might help
Sun's JRE startup times:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/vm/class-data-sharing.html
Ranjit.
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