gcj executable size reduction?

Thu Apr 15 19:37:00 GMT 2004

David Daney writes:
 > 
 > Thinking about it more, this would not work. We really need a 
 > preprocessor for java...
 > 
 > What would also be required would be to also go through all the 
 > runtime's classes and hack out all AccessController usage. Although a 
 > quick grep of the sources shows that AccessController is probably not 
 > used nearly as often as it should be in a standards complient 
 > implementation.
This is all very difficult. What we really need, I suspect, is a few
well-defined subsets.
Andrew.