For me it swings the other way. M3 is ~23s cold start.  trunk is ~41s.

That's another view. The benefit to a cold start is in measuring the impact of disk activity without the FS cache. Better simulates Windows users. S, ALR On 06/03/2010 06:43 PM, Rémy Maucherat wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Andrew Lee Rubinger > <andrew.rubinger(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> For me it swings the other way. >> >> M3 is ~23s cold start. trunk is ~41s. > I only measure warm starts. Otherwise things can be affected by > fragmentation or pure luck (the cache was full, or the OS felt like > doing something with the HDD at the same time). > > Rémy > > _______________________________________________ > jboss-development mailing list > jboss-development(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-development

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Bill Burke <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > I barely see a difference between cold and warm starts...well...I'm > running with an SSD :p I do use one on my desktop now, and it's very nice for certain things, but I think you're getting a bigger performance benefit on a laptop (the big downside is since you can only fit one drive usually, you have to spend a lot if you need something which has the usual capacity).