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Re: Memory residence

From: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
To: Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>
Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, shudo at computer dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:45:02 -0700
Subject: Re: Memory residence
References: <20050523.052302.189730446.shudo@aist.go.jp> <20050523.061645.719890540.shudo@aist.go.jp> <17043.19086.541233.265950@zapata.pink> <42948027.6020608@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2005-05-25 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

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