Forkable OpenJDK...is it madness?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 05:12, Charles Oliver Nutter
<headius at headius.com> wrote:
> And JRuby's not alone. Dalvik supports forking, which is a large part
> of why it's able to boot small Java applications so darn quickly; the
> base Dalvik process has already initialized a bunch of VM and Android
> state, and the foked child just boots application-specific logic.
>
> I'm interested in finding a way to make this happen.
>
> - Charlie

It exists, and it´s a work-around, but it works very well... nailgun. ;-)

http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/

FC

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