Process-level fork on OpenJDK...is it madness?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 18:32, Mark Roos <mroos at roos.com> wrote:
> I just finished a paper (link below) on JVM startup time which states that
> for small programs its around
> 70ms

I don´t know about your paper, but on my single-core Atom netbook with
1.6 Ghz CPU and 2 Gigs of RAM running WinXP SP3 and JRE 7.0, starting
Jython takes a whopping 10-20 seconds... even more the first time I
think.

But I admit that might be more an issue with Jython than the JVM...

Plus, if start-up time of small apps wasn´t an issue Nailgun wouldn´t
even be needed. :)

FC

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