> While start-up times don't matter that much for long running workloads, they can make a huge difference in cloud-native scenarios where applications are dynamically scaled out, spinning up new instances on demand as the load of incoming requests increases.
"App Images" are what these are called in Android afaik. ART (the Android Run Time) has been capable of "AoT Class Loading & Linking" since 2016/7 (and ~pauseless GC since 2019). Seems like the desktop/server grade JVMs have a lot of ground to cover.
"App Images" are what these are called in Android afaik. ART (the Android Run Time) has been capable of "AoT Class Loading & Linking" since 2016/7 (and ~pauseless GC since 2019). Seems like the desktop/server grade JVMs have a lot of ground to cover.