Re: The Great Startup Problem, redux

2018-11-07 Thread Claes Redestad
Hi, thanks for the pointer... :-) However, while it's true that SVM (in its current form) imposes severe limits to dynamicity, it'd be a bug if jaotc, jlink or any other of the startup efforts (such as AppCDS) in the OpenJDK project changed semantics or imposed limits to indy-style dynamicity

The Great Startup Problem, redux

2018-11-07 Thread Ghadi Shayban
The Great Startup Problem [1] was a wonderful read highlighting the problems surrounding the early life of a JVM application. In-flight efforts that allow (to a limited extent) better startup characteristics include jaotc, substrateVM, jlink. These efforts all trade away dynamicity of some sort, an