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Re: Obfuscation - optimisation?
Am Mittwoch, 24. November 2004 09:53 schrieb Martin Egholm Nielsen:
> Hi,
>
> (Weird, I cannot see my own posting in the newsgroup [on gmane], but
> yours is there...)
>
> >>A question came to mind:
> >>When using classes one can use obfuscation/optimisation tools on
> >>class-files (e.g. progaurd) in order to reduce footprint, etc. Are there
> >>any similar possibilities with gcj?
> >>I reckon I cannot use progaurd since gcj cannot compile to native from
> >>class-files, right?!
> > gcj can compile from class files to native but its less effective.
> Ofcourse it can - silly me. I use "gcj -c some.jar" all the time...
> But how is it less effective?
gcj can use more optimizations because class files provide much less
informations for the compiler then java sources do.
> But that is then the way to go - obfuscation on class-basis and then
> straight ahead?!
I know no other way yet.
Michael
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