Obfuscation - optimisation?

[Martin Egholm Nielsen]

Hi,

(Weird, I cannot see my own posting in the newsgroup [on gmane], but 
yours is there...)

>>A question came to mind:
>>When using classes one can use obfuscation/optimisation tools on 
>>class-files (e.g. progaurd) in order to reduce footprint, etc. Are there 
>>any similar possibilities with gcj?
>>I reckon I cannot use progaurd since gcj cannot compile to native from 
>>class-files, right?!
> gcj can compile from class files to native but its less effective.
Ofcourse it can - silly me. I use "gcj -c some.jar" all the time...
But how is it less effective?

But that is then the way to go - obfuscation on class-basis and then 
straight ahead?!

// Martin