[fedora-java] lib-foo-bar magic name class loading

Anthony Green green at redhat.com
Sat Dec 3 03:14:27 UTC 2005


Eclipse starts 15 to 20 seconds faster for me when I start it like so...

eclipse -vmargs -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never

This is because it's doing over 60,000 fewer failing file-system calls
(trying to open non-existent libraries).

Should we change libgcj's default behaviour?  If not, adding
-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never to startup scripts
like /usr/bin/eclipse seems like a good idea.  AFAIK we don't rely on
this old class loading trick.

AG





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