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RE: Obfuscation - optimisation?
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans dot boehm at hp dot com>
- To: "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat dot com>,"Doctor Bill" <docbill at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "Martin Egholm Nielsen" <martin at egholm-nielsen dot dk>,<java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:29:48 -0800
- Subject: RE: Obfuscation - optimisation?
It does claim to eliminate unused methods and fields,
which should impact both code and heap size. I would
expect substantially so, in some cases. But I
have no experience with it ...
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org
> [mailto:java-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On Behalf Of
> Andrew Haley
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:23 AM
> To: Doctor Bill
> Cc: Martin Egholm Nielsen; java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Obfuscation - optimisation?
>
>
> Doctor Bill writes:
> > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:08:38 +0000, Andrew Haley
> <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Martin Egholm Nielsen writes:
> > > "TheA clue is in the bit of my post you snipped.
> http://proguard.sourceforge.net/
>
> > In any event, this description ignores the main point of
> > obfuscation is not to reduce program size, but to make a reverse
> > compile of the program more difficult to read.
>
> Perhaps, but that's not the goal of the original poster.
>
> Andrew.
>
>