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Re: Partial java.util.zip merge with Classpath
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Partial java.util.zip merge with Classpath
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:54:24 -0700
- CC: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20011005134933.A9852@klomp.org> <87r8siyuxz.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
Tom Tromey wrote:
>Do we want to use all of jazzlib in libgcj or do we just want to
>continue using zlib?
>
The latter, I think.
>Switching to jazzlib doesn't mean we can delete zlib from the
>repository -- we will still need it for gcj. So there isn't a
>significant maintenance win there.
>
>Even so I think there is a maintenance benefit to merging with
>Classpath. For one thing it means more potential bug-fixers for the
>code.
>
I think you have it backwards. zlib is used by more code, and is more
stable
than jazzlib. Using jazzlib adds useless duplication.
>How much does the performance of this code matter to us? And how much
>does performance suffer with jazzlib? Those are interesting
>questions.
>
It is not just time but also space. If the code is written using Java
classes,
the compiler has to generate extra but useless reflexive data.