gcj executable size reduction?

Tue May 4 18:22:00 GMT 2004

Adam Megacz wrote:
> The way it works is this: you compile all your code into bytecode, it
> traces reachability (including symbol tables in any CNI code) and
> stubs out unreachable method with a one-line "throw new
> UnsatisfiedLinkError()". There are a few more optimizations, but
> that's the main gist.

I'll look at this more closely. Does this also optimize libgcj?
> The other change I made was to add -finhibit-reflection, which drops
> as much reflection metadata as possible. Class.forName() still works
> and I keep enough method info to use interface dispatch (although I'd
> love to do that differently).

Do you have a patch for this? Is this something that would/should be
added to the source tree?
> Any luck, Per?

I've added a -verbose:class to print out initializations,
plus a -lgij to enable compiling a static executable.
But the pieces aren't all together yet.
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