> We should give some thought to this. I threw in fop as the profile
> benchmark after very little consideration. If we're prepared to pay
> the build-time overhead, I suggest we use a richer benchmark, such as
> eclipse which is more likely to give the whole VM a shake. I chose
> fop mainly because it was short running.... What do you (and others)
> think?
>
> I suppose one of us could actually do an evaluation of this and see
> how each of the options fly... It should not be too hard. I'm
> prepared to do it, but not at this moment.
>
I'd think (without actually measuring anything....;)) that eclipse would be
the best choice among the DaCapo benchmarks.
What we are looking for is something that exercises a fair amount of the VM
codebase in "typical" ways.
--dave
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