Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

>> We could look into this.  The minimum subset is probably several
>> hundred classes.  For instance, Class refers to URL, which will
>> probably pull in most of java.net.

Florian> Can't you fallback to the interpreter for the URL class?

We prefer to build most of the core without -findirect-dispatch,
because it yields better performance.  This means that all the direct
dependencies must be compiled and linked in.

Of course we could try to change this.  But, then we'd need a special
mode for this kind of build (I think) and we wouldn't really be
testing things the same way that users build them.

Tom