Re: Running Eclipse on Jikes RVM and Classpath

[Brian Jones]

Michael Hind <address@hidden> writes:

> As Julian's recent post mentioned, we just put a release of Jikes RVM out 
> that relies totally on Classpath and runs a significant subset of Eclipse. 
>   A few months back, someone mentioned that getting Eclipse started on an 
> open source JVM with Classpath would be a good benchmark and suggested 
> that getting it to run in under a minute would be a nice goal.
> 
> Using a FastAdaptiveSemiSpace image with a 200 Mb heap, we got to the sign 
> on screen in approximately 12 secs on a Linux/IA32 box.

Good progress!  I look forward to trying out the new release.

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Brian Jones <address@hidden>