I can make your gcj-compiled binaries much smaller.

Adam Megacz gcj@lists.megacz.com
Tue Jan 14 22:05:00 GMT 2003


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



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