Eclipse starts 15 to 20 seconds faster for me when I start it like so...
eclipse -vmargs -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never
This is because it's doing over 60,000 fewer failing file-system calls
(trying to open non-existent libraries).
Should we change libgcj's default behaviour? If not, adding
-Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never to startup scripts
like /usr/bin/eclipse seems like a good idea. AFAIK we don't rely on
this old class loading trick.
AG