There was an interesting London Java Community meetup[1] this week covering this topic. Matthew Gilliard demonstrated Class Data Sharing[2] and Application Clas

There was an interesting London Java Community meetup[1] this week covering this topic. Matthew Gilliard demonstrated Class Data Sharing[2] and Application Class Data Sharing[3] and its impact on JVM startup times. My work proxy is making it a pain to find the presentation, I'll try again at home. [1] - https://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/252118399/ https://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/252118399/ [2] - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/class-data-sharing.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/cl... [3] - http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/310 http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/310