Re: performance problems

[Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>]

Tom wrote:
> I'm not too thrilled with the idea of an environment variable.
> Shouldn't this be set on a per-application basis?

Yes, this makes perfect sense.

> Two ideas:
>
> 1. Change the default in the Boehm GC on a per-target basis.
>    For native builds we could make it larger.
> 
> 2. Add a new --heap-size option to gcj and build in the number
>    at link time.  Change the GC interface (such as it is) in libgcj
>    to support setting this at initialization time.

These are both reasonable ideas.

Imagine being able to bind properties to executables.  I think this
might be easy to do for many systems.  They could all live in a
special section of the executable in order to make it easy to add and
remove them with something like objcopy.  It's easy to imagine a
wrapper around objcopy for manipulating properties like initial heap
size, default classpath, default character encodings, and such.

AG

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Anthony Green                                               Cygnus Solutions
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