Patch: replace mutex with object synchronization

[Bryce McKinlay]

Per Bothner wrote:

> Jeff Sturm wrote:
>
>> When I ran the -fno-assume-compiled experiment I was simply trying to
>> link as small an executable as possible.  Efficiency wasn't 
>> important.  I
>> ran the application once printing the name of each class as it was 
>> loaded,
>
>
> Did you use any special tools or patch for this?
>
> I'm thinking it might be useful to implement some property that
> if set will print out to a file each class that gets initialized.
> Optionally, it might print out a stack trace, in case one wants
> to figure out "why is this class gettin initialized"?


Yeah, I think this would be useful. I'm thinking of adding some 
infrastructure for debugging class linking (offset tables, etc), and 
"initialization traces" could be added to that.

Regards

Bryce