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statically linked executable size
- From: Marco Trudel <mtrudel at gmx dot ch>
- To: GCJ <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:19:04 +0200
- Subject: statically linked executable size
Hello list
I noticed that a simple System.out.println() application will have
different executable sizes when compiling with different gcj versions
(althought it does exactly the same and needs exactly the same java
classes):
gcj 3.4.5: 2.88mb (libgcj-3.4.5.jar is 5.09mb)
gcj 4.1.1: 5.45mb (libgcj-4.1.1.jar is 6.02mb)
gcj 4.2.0: 8.88mb (libgcj-4.2.0.jar is 8.11mb)
What is the reason for it? There were already discussions in the list
about it, but I haven't found an explanation...
Are there more/all classes compiled into the executables as libgcj grows?
regards
Marco