title: Why Tomcat 8.5 option allowLinking=true makes startup faster
body: <p>I'm trying to upgrade a web application from  Java 7/tomcat 7  to Java8/Tomcat 8.5.</p>
  
  <p>Everything works well but tomcat startup time is twice slower on tomcat 8.5 (2min) than in tomcat7 (1 min). The most unbelievable is that using option <code>allowLinking=true</code> in my  context.xml makes my tomcat 8.5 starts quickly (about 1 min)</p>
  
  <p>My problem is  that I'm running on <strong>windows</strong> and tomcat 8.5 documentation about this option says </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>This flag MUST NOT be set to true on the Windows platform</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/config/resources.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/config/resources.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Does anybody have an explanation ? 
  And should i use this option on my tomcat (windows)  against apache recommendation ...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>