Hello! I am trying to understand the Groovy language, and something keeps bugging me. I thought I'd ask a question to maybe help my investigation along.
I was surprised to see that the "lightest" distribution of Groovy still contains an embedded version of antlr, asm (I suppose it's embedded to ensure these classes are not overridden). I can see that this is necessary to be able to compile and add Groovy code to the JVM at runtime. My question is: Is it possible to separate the compiler from the other classes which are responsible for running the compiled Groovy code? In my hypothetical scenario there would be a groovy-runtime jar, and a groovy-compiler jar, and only if my application needed dynamic compilation of Groovy scripts would I include the groovy-compiler. The groovy-runtime would be sufficient to run already compiled Groovy programs. I'm guessing the runtime system must have some inherent dependency on the compiler that I have not figured out yet. Thank you very much for your help Marton
