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Re: Memory residence

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.
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