Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

[Andrew Haley]

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "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.

No.  It would cause all manner of problems at startup; not worth
it.

Andrew.