Andrew Haley wrote: > Gary Benson writes: > > David Walluck wrote: > > > Andrew Haley wrote: > > > > It will be invoked from the specfile, but by either > > > > > > > > a. Going to some java dir and running make, or > > > > b. Running some VM-agnostic script that does a. > > > > > > It happens so quick. Why not have `java' be a script that > > > invokes gij, and then just run it from there? > > Rebuild every time? It's fast, but it's not _that_ fast. The speed > of rebuilding depends how many libraries you have installed, and > scalability was my first design goal. (The time taken to do the > rebuild is O(N) in theory, but likely slightly worse in practice > because of the page cache.) > > > It needs to happen as root. > > > > Though, I wonder if per-session databases might not be a better > > idea. Andrew? > > It's a bad idea IMO. The libraries that are installed are global on > the system, and the database should be too. > > The database is in memory that's shared between all processes, and > for that to be secure only root has write access to it. There's no > reason not to have per-session databases in some special > applications, but it is *not* a good choice for a default policy. Fair enough. Cheers, Gary
