With contributions from Hang Shao. By now you’ve no doubt heard of Eclipse OpenJ9 and its reputation for starting applications faster and using less memory. If not, you should visit the Eclipse OpenJ9 Performance page. The Shared Class Cache (SCC) capability is one of the main reasons why OpenJ9 can start faster and use less…
It’s complicated… Relationship verification is very important, but can we be a little lazy about it? Java bytecode verification entails several processes, one of which is class relationship verification. Java Virtual Machine (JVM) startup includes any JVM or application setup preceding the actual execution of the program, and one of these steps is verification. Consequently,…
In the cloud environment, you need to bring up your microservices applications quickly and frequently in respond to user demands. Therefore, having a JVM that starts up faster is important. Eclipse OpenJ9 is a JVM that has a fast start-up performance and a low memory footprint. This post outlines how to improve the start-up performance…
Class sharing is a feature in Eclipse OpenJ9 that improves your application’s startup performance. It also reduces the memory footprint if the same cache shared across multiple JVMs. Traditionally, this feature is turned on by explicitly specifying option -Xshareclasses in the command line. Default Class Sharing Class data sharing is enabled by default for bootstrap…
Containers are increasingly becoming the preferred way of deploying applications. They facilitate consistency between development and operations, allow for an easy way to build layers for reuse, and make it very easy for users to try out an application without having to deal with setting up all the prerequisites. However, just because applications have moved…
