Jeff Sturm wrote: > On 11 Apr 2001, Per Bothner wrote: > > > The 'add everything' approach only invites DLL hell. > > > > Well, first this is what Sun does, at least to some extent, with the > > "extensions" mechanism. > > If I understand this extension mechanism correctly, the class loader can > potentially search the entire extensions directory at runtime. That seems > horribly inefficient if that directory can grow to dozens or hundreds of > .jar's.
Isn't that an implementation issue? What I mean is that " if that directory can grow to dozens or hundreds of .jar's", nothing would prevent gcj from, for example, keeping a directory of the content of the jar files in some kind of private database for faster startup. Cedric
