 
Footprint is a small test that can be used to report on the
startup times costs for minimal programs.  In general it is good
for noticing "big" changes, but it isn't very good for measuring
small changes.	
 
Footprint only runs on NT 4.0.

To run the test, simply do "nmake" in the src/share/test/footprint directory.
 
Note that there is normally some smallish variation between runs.
2 or 3% variance is normal.

In addition a fully packaged JDK image with a classes.zip has
slightly different numbers to a working build that uses unzipped
class files.  The variation is normnally within 3% of memory for
all the tests, and within 3% of CPU for the AWT and Swing startups,
but may be as high as 15% of CPU time for the console startup.


 						Graham Hamilton
						  May '98
