Pier Fumagalli dijo: > On 29 Feb 2004, at 19:25, Geoff Howard wrote: > >>>> I think that a better use of the file system would yield much more >>>> performance, since JVM IO is pretty much optimized for file access >>>> anyway (and uses OS-level caching). >>>> >>>> thoughts? >>> >>> I've been looking at the java.nio stuff, especially in the area of >>> memory mapping some files :-P I can tell you that it's FAST, and >>> basically does the trick. See a file as a big array in ram, well, but >>> actually it's only a "fake" array mapped really on the disk, and >>> cached by kernel... >> >> I've been thinking of that myself -- do I remember correctly that >> we've tossed around the idea of making 2.2 jdk1.4 only?? > > That would be so cool... Now that even IBM has a 1.4 JVM for most > platform (including Linux), well, I don't see why not! :-)
Is a VOTE needed for this? If yes, Can you start it? Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo
