RFC: micro-libgcj merge proposal

David Daney ddaney@avtrex.com
Fri Jan 13 23:09:00 GMT 2006


Tom Tromey wrote:
> Another question I have in this area: what is the viability, or not,
> of post-processing instead of pre-processing?

I think pre-processing will always be better (in terms of size of 
executable).

For example making VMClassLoader extend SecureClassLoader instead of 
URLClassLoader saves some code.  I don't think you could re-parent a 
class in post-processing very easily, but pre-processing it is quite simple.

I can think of other things that are similar.

David Daney



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