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

[Thomas Wuerthinger]

On 11/29/11 11:22 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> Am 29.11.2011 22:32, schrieb Mark Roos:
> [...]
>> I just finished a paper (link below) on JVM startup time which states
>> that for small programs its around
>> 70ms. So I assume there is some other startup time you are trying to
>> improve? Or is the
>> paper not applicable to the launching of a new process as you describe it?
> For the JVM itself that might be true, but in case of for example Groovy
> there is a lot if init work to be done before the first program can be
> executed. And this takes time.
>
> bye Jochen
What kind of initialization work is this? Could the result of that work 
be cached?

- thomas