unused constant pool entries

[Per Bothner]

Adam Megacz wrote:

> If I use gcj to compile .class -> .o, will unused constantpool entries
> in the class file affect the size of the resultant .o?

I'm fairly sure it would not.

> Related question: can anybody give me a rough idea of what degree of
> possible optimizations are lost by compiling .class -> .o instead of
> .java -> .o?

I know gcj had trouble doing some loop optimizations on bytecode;
I don't know if that is still an issue.

Static numeric array initializers are much more efficient in source
code.

There's probably more.
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