dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)

Thu Apr 12 08:01:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Corey" == Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:

Corey> Remember that at least two others use different GCs with GCJ.
Corey> What might be nice would be an interface that any GC could implement
Corey> that was divorced from any particular GC. Something like POSIX (but
Corey> hopefully a better design that POSIX).
We tried to do this with the _Jv_ functions. I guess one could argue
that the Boehm GC could simply rename the functions it exports.
Passing the name of the allocation function to gcj via libgcj.spec
seems like a reasonable approach to me, though. That way each GC gets
to keep its exported namespace relatively clean, but we don't really
lose much in terms of maintainability.
Tom