compacting _Jv_Utf8Const

[Per Bothner]

Tom Tromey wrote:

>>>>>>"Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
> 
> 
> Per> Any suggestions for easily counting the number of _Jv_Utf8Const
> Per> objects in libgcj?
> 
> I think you can run nm on libgcj.so and look at all the _Utf* symbols.
> I got:
> 
> fleche. nm .libs/libgcj.so|grep _Utf|wc -l
>   66488

I assume this is without duplicate removal.  The _UtfNN symbols are
local symbols; I'm not sure how to count unique symbols.

If we take this number as accurate, we're taking about a saving
of around 227kB.  That's substantial.

> If you're considering touching every place that uses a Utf8Const, how
> about going one step further and write some C++ classes to abstract
> out the representation from the uses?

Yes, that makes sense.
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