On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Stuart Roebuck wrote: > On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 06:54 pm, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > > Since I've see that the Xerces jar is about 1.6Mb, I remade it with > > compression on and the resulting size is 834kb. I haven't checked the > > other jars, but IMHO bandwith could benefit from some compression. > > There's supposed to be a trade off between compression and runtime speed > unless this is another performance tuning rule that doesn't apply anymore. > I've always wondered what difference to performance it would make to: > > a) Merge all the jar files together into one (uncompressed) file. > b) Extract out all the jar files into the same filespace and run them > outside of a jar. > > Unfortunately I've never had time to give it a try!
fwiw, i did some speed analysis of this awhile back out of idle curiosity. compressed jars only slow things down when the classloader is loading classes from them, which typically only happens when the app starts up, and the performance hit is negligable. i'm +1 for all compressed jars to save bandwidth. - donald --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
