Eclipse running out of memory, or..?

Frode Petersen fropeter at online.no
Fri Mar 2 13:25:57 UTC 2007


Andrew Overholt skrev:
> * Frode Petersen <fropeter at online.no> [2007-02-26 06:24]:
>>> One thing to confirm is that you are indeed running with the Sun VM.  If
>>> you've downloaded plugins that aren't shipped with Fedora, they don't
>>> contain the gcj-compiled bits and if you're just running with our stock
>>> setup, they'll be purely interpreted by gij.  They'll run slower than if
>>> there are .sos corresponding to the jars.  But if you're running with
>>> the Sun VM then that's irrelevant.
>>> Andrew
>> One of the plugins refused to run with less than Java 1.5, I have not 
>> checked the other in that respect.
> 
> Then you must use the Sun (or IBM or BEA) VM.  gcj in rawhide has just
> recently merged in the 1.5 branch of GNU Classpath so you can expect
> that in Fedora 7.
> 
>> But what you're saying here, if I get you right, is that if I need
>> Java 1.5, there wouldn't be any advantage in using Fedora Eclipse over
>> the upstream version, but if the Fedora Java stack suffices for the
>> plugins, Eclipse itself would run faster, although the plugins won't
>> benefit. Confused again? :-)
> 
> I don't think it's worth talking about absolute performance of
> gcj-compiled binaries vs. the Sun JIT 'cause there are a lot of factors
> and it's difficult to get hard numbers that apply in all cases.
> 
> As for using Fedora Eclipse over an upstream download, it's up to you.
> We include a few patches.  These have either been applied upstream after
> the release we're shipping or are useful for multi-user, RPM-based
> installations.  There's also the benefit of having it installed and
> managed by yum and the whole RPM infrastructure but I figure that goes
> without saying :)
> 
> Andrew
> 

Thank you for the clarifications!

Frode




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