statically linked executable size

[Ranjit Mathew]

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Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
> Most of this seems to me to be perverse dependencies in the _design_
> of the Java(tm) library, not something we can fix.  Why is
> NumericShaper in AWT, anyway?

Agreed 100%.

A "java -verbose:class Hello" with Sun's JDK 1.5.0.05 shows
that 295 classes are loaded just to print "Hello World!". :-/

Ranjit.

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