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Re: Java libraries and proposal.
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Subject: Re: Java libraries and proposal.
- From: Cedric Berger <cedric at wireless-networks dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:11:34 -0700
- CC: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, james at netcsi dot com, debian-java at lists dot debian dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104112115240.6823-100000@mars.deadcafe.org>
Jeff Sturm wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2001, Per Bothner wrote:
> > > The 'add everything' approach only invites DLL hell.
> >
> > Well, first this is what Sun does, at least to some extent, with the
> > "extensions" mechanism.
>
> If I understand this extension mechanism correctly, the class loader can
> potentially search the entire extensions directory at runtime. That seems
> horribly inefficient if that directory can grow to dozens or hundreds of
> .jar's.
Isn't that an implementation issue?
What I mean is that " if that directory can grow to dozens or hundreds of
.jar's", nothing would prevent gcj from, for example, keeping a directory of
the content of the jar files in some kind of private database for faster startup.
Cedric