Re: reducing Java program startup time
In article <1169739803.176262.147490@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>, neuneudr@yahoo.fr writes:
I'm using small Java utilities called from scripts (mainly
shell scripts on Unix platforms).
One example would be something like:
find somedirectory -iname "*txt" -exec java -jar myprog.jar {} \;
Which could result in hundreds of call to the Java program.
JVM startup times have kept going down... And Java 1.6 is
continuing to show this (very good) trend.
Taking into account the fact that I want to continue using
these Java utilities (that is: I won't rewrite them in any
other language), is there any way to speed up JVM startup
time?
Particularly, I was thinking of the following: could I launch
one daemon-like Java process that would always be running
and that would take care of launching the various jars
when needed?
And the example would become, say:
find somedirectory -iname "*txt" -exec
littleUtilThatNotifiesMyJavaDaemon myprog.jar {} \;
I guess my question boils down to: if you run a .jar from another
Java program, can this be made to be faster than simply doing
a new "java -jar ...".
Driss
As noted elsewhere, you could certainly do that, but how about
something a bit less invasive?
Could you instead convert your programs to accept multiple parameters,
a la. Convert:
public static void main (String [] args)
{
String arg = args [1];
dofunction (arg);
}
to:
public static void main (String [] args)
{
for (String arg : args)
dofunction (arg);
}
and then invoke it as:
find somedirectory -iname "*txt" -print0 | xargs -0 java -jar myprog.jar
or even:
find somedirectory -iname "*txt" -print | xargs java -jar myprog.jar
if your xargs doesn't support -0 and you don't have any funky file names.
That would apportion the startup costs across hundreds to thousands of
invocations (depending upon your system's tuning and options to xargs).
- dmw
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