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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>
>>> We could look into this. The minimum subset is probably several
>>> hundred classes. For instance, Class refers to URL, which will
>>> probably pull in most of java.net.
>
> Florian> Can't you fallback to the interpreter for the URL class?
>
> We prefer to build most of the core without -findirect-dispatch,
> because it yields better performance. This means that all the direct
> dependencies must be compiled and linked in.
>
> Of course we could try to change this.
No. It would cause all manner of problems at startup; not worth
it.
Andrew.