Startup/warmup is one of our major things that we are concentrating on for 9. Results in the lab are really already quite impressive, I am happy to say.
In the meantime, with 8u40, you can use the code caching / optimistic type caching feature to serialize code to disk. This makes consecutive invocations of a script very fast. /M > On 25 Dec 2014, at 17:03, KARR, DAVID <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gradle already mitigates the startup time problem with the Gradle Daemon, so > typical client invocations will be faster than without it. > > From: Benjamin Sieffert [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 7:44 AM > To: KARR, DAVID > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Will Nashorn facilitate Gradle being used for more web > application assembly and test tasks, without using Node? > > A problem with JVM-based components being used in a tool-like manner is the > relatively huge cost associated with just starting the JVM. > E.g. if I start a JRuby-console ("irb"), it takes 2-3 seconds, whereas a MRI > console basically opens instantly. Even with the work being put into reducing > nashorn's own warm-up time, the JVM's share will remain. An approach here > seems to be to have one JVM running at all times and then relegating the > invocations of your tools to it. Nailgun is an implementation of this > recommended by the JRuby team. But such an approach certainly brings its own > share of problems. In the end, I think that with the JIT, the JVM's very > promise has always been that getting prime performance on it requires your > application to be a bit on the longer-lasting side. Otherwise, AOT optimized > code will just be plain faster. And with most commandline tools, I feel, > invocation speed means a lot. > > On 24 December 2014 at 19:02, KARR, DAVID > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Nashorn and Avatar are interesting to me, but not personally as much for the > ability to write standalone or server-based JavaScript applications. > > I see Node.js being primarily used in two different ways. It is used to > write those standalone and server-based JavaScript applications, but it is > also used entirely in the building and testing process of web applications, > primarily with the Karma, Bower, and Grunt Node modules. I imagine there are > other Node modules like that that are primarily used as a tool, not as a > component in a custom Node.js application. > > You might consider this a "niche" application, but I'm primarily interested > to see whether Nashorn will be able to make it easier to use Gradle to build > web applications and run JavaScript unit tests, without involving Node.js. > > > > -- > Benjamin Sieffert > metrigo GmbH > Sternstr. 106 > 20357 Hamburg > > Geschäftsführer: Christian Müller, Tobias Schlottke, Philipp Westermeyer > Die Gesellschaft ist eingetragen beim Registergericht Hamburg > Nr. HRB 120447.
