In some *completely* unscientific tests, I've found that on my laptop, my large-ish workspace starts up in around 19 seconds with stock rawhide (gcj) and in around 16 seconds with the Sun JDK. This is completely unverifiable and unreproducable but I just thought I'd send out the mad props to the gcj, Classpath, and toolchain teams for their great work in speed improvements. Keep up the great work!
Andrew
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