On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 02:17, Sander Vesik wrote: > zip is not really an archival format either. And jdk-s do share the result. I'd doubt that. A JVM will open the zip file, search for the class file they need to open, read the bytes from the class file and then transform it into an in-memory representation. The .class format works well as an on-disk format, but it sucks as a data structure for actually running Java from. Therefore every JVM loads all of rt.jar separately. (however, JDK 1.5 appears to do some magic when it installs to pre-parse some of the classes, but I've not dug into this much it is arch-specific. These files are not zip files and may well be memory dumps of the parsed classes, so can be loaded in a single step) Ross -- Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com jabber: ross burtonini com www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
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