Currently, SharedLibHelper will make a copy of a .so in some situations. Specifically, this happens if the .so has already been opened by a different class loader.
On systems that support it, we could (perhaps) use the dlmopen() call to avoid this copy. This would be more efficient. Note that this comes from Solaris but has recently been implemented in glibc; it appears in FC4. -- Summary: use dlmopen to avoid copying .so Product: gcc Version: 4.1.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: libgcj AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: tromey at gcc dot gnu dot org CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org,java-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24125