ARM support

Per Bothner per@bothner.com
Sun Jun 29 07:00:00 GMT 2003


Geert Bevin wrote:

> It is mindblowing indeed ! The evident question I then get from someone
> that has severe space limitations is : why does such a small program
> need to have all these classes linked in. I would answer ... since much
> of it is looked up with reflection. However you said reflection is
> disabled, so now I'm confused :-/


No, it because the basic class library is very interconnected.
java.io is tied up with java.util which is tied up with java.text
which is tried up with internationization.  Even "hello world"
ends up referencing a lot of classes, even without reflection.
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