GCJ information

Fri Dec 14 04:27:00 GMT 2001

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> 1. Change the representation of metadata. For instance, it could be
> stored compressed and then decompressed during class initialization.

My concern is mainly with download size (applet/activex), so the
executable is already compressed (.jar or .cab).
> 2. Implement "section GC" for gcj. With this feature you can tell the
> linker to omit all unused functions, including unused virtual methods.
> g++ can already do this. I don't know how well this is documented,
> but in theory one could do it by reading the appropriate code in the
> C++ front end.

Yeah, I'd love this, but I think it might be a bit beyond my abilities.
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