Google just announced their attack plan for handling the long startup cost for, among others, Grails applications.
Apparently what I can do as a developer is to enable pre-compilation of my application. I’ll experiment with this at the end of the week I hope.
Read the full post on the AppEngine blog
#1 by bendanpa on December 9, 2009 - 23:03
I just tried that. The total waiting time is still the same. But the app will less likely throw 500 error. Looks like the compile time is not count into the app-engine loading time so even the total wall time is the same the loading time is less. With this feature user will still need to wait for the same time but don’t have to reload. Better than nothing.
#2 by Morten on December 9, 2009 - 23:30
@bendanpa
Thanks for the heads up!