[JAVA,libtool] Big libjava is biiiig.

Sat Aug 22 18:55:00 GMT 2009

Andrew Haley wrote:
> One thing that you may like to consider is compiling
> more packages with -findirect-dispatch -fno-indirect-classes. This has a
> smallish performance penalty, but packages compiled this way have no link-
> time dependencies on other packages. Instead, everything gets fixed up
> at runtime.

 That's useful to know, it sounds more or less like a "get out of jail free"
card in the event that we ever need to break any dependency cycles, which
might happen as libjava grows.
 cheers,
 DaveK