Michele Sciabarra <[email protected]> wrote on 01/07/2019 01:08:25 PM:
>
> I benchmarked the java runtime, here:
>
> https://sciabarracom.github.io/incubator-openwhisk-runtime-actionloop/
>
> As you can see the openwhisk/javaaction is pretty slow. Not sure
> why... So I did a proof of concept to see how much I can improve.
> Actually, a lot, as you can see the actionloop/java8, bringing the
> runtime on par with the others using action loop.
>
> The actionloop/java8 is only a PoC, it runs the hello.java but I did
> not run the tests. If the proposal is accepted I will work to make
> sue it passes all the tests of the current java runtime. Then I have
> in mind a lot of extensions, supporting java 11, providing the
> ability to compile sources, download dependencies, compile also
> scala and kotlin...
>
> But let do things in order. It the community ok that I contribute an
> actionloop based java runtime?
Hi Michele,
No objections to speeding up Java from me :)
The gain in /run is impressive. I do think we should try to
understand why there is a slowdown in /init and attempt to mitigate it
(since a cold start will do both /init and /run).
--dave
