Bug 174929

Summary: Turn off lib-foo-bar class loading to speed up Eclipse startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Anthony Green <green>
Component: eclipseAssignee: Igor Foox <ifoox>
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Description Anthony Green 2005-12-04 13:22:47 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Set the gnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control property to "never" and you'll see that Eclipse starts up a little faster (15-20 seconds for me).  

See this thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2005-December/msg00000.html



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Modify the eclipse startup script by adding -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
2.Start eclipse
3.
  

Additional info:
Comment 1 Andrew Overholt 2005-12-04 15:04:55 UTC 
What are we going to do when we get rid of the wrapper script?
Comment 2 Anthony Green 2005-12-04 16:06:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> What are we going to do when we get rid of the wrapper script?

There's also a corresponding GCC bug report for changing the default in libgcj.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25250

..but I don't know when that may happen.


Were you planning on removing the script prior to FC5?
Comment 3 Andrew Overholt 2005-12-04 17:56:14 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> Were you planning on removing the script prior to FC5?

Hopefully, yes.  See bug 168726.
Comment 4 Andrew Overholt 2005-12-05 16:30:37 UTC 
I guess I could put this into the forthcoming FC4 update.
Comment 5 Andrew Overholt 2005-12-05 16:36:15 UTC 
Igor, can you look at this before we do an FC4 update, please?
Comment 6 Andrew Overholt 2006-02-03 16:13:36 UTC 
Since we have no wrapper in FC4 either, this isn't going to happen until it's
the gcj default.
Comment 7 Anthony Green 2006-02-03 16:37:01 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> Since we have no wrapper in FC4 either, this isn't going to happen until it's
> the gcj default.

Well, there's actually a wrapper executable (the /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse).  You
should be able to simply set that property in that program, no?