java 8u31 plugin causes signed applets to load much slower
问题 i have noticed that signed applets are loaded much slower with the latest plugin (included in java 8u31 and 7u75). I have debugged the situation quite a lot and i found out that the problem is directly related to the size of the jar files that are referenced in the jnlp file. The problem is that each time the applet starts, there is some 're-indexing' of the cached jar files that takes time. To reproduce the issue i did this: I created a minimal applet and in the jnlp file i used to deploy it