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Re: I can make your gcj-compiled binaries much smaller.
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> The application developer can do it, as Adam suggests. It seems to me
> that this approach will be unreliable, though. You can't always know
> what classes you need to require; maybe an unusual code path requires
> some class you omitted.
Quite true. This won't be perfect, but I think for many people, a few
hours of extra effort nailing down the class list will be worth the
gigantic decrease in executable size.
Like I said before, I know that this is a problem, but I don't think
it's a showstopper. What I'm *really* interested in is having people
examine the actual mechanism I'm using and comment on *that*.
- a