On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 02:40, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Koning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul> Maybe. Then again, maybe there are real problems here. The ranlib > Paul> one was already mentioned. And I wonder if libjava really needs to > Paul> bring the host to its knees, as it does. > > Killing machines is only a secondary goal, if that's what you mean ;-) > > The bad news is that libjava is only going to grow. > > On the other hand, while I haven't measured it myself, I've heard that > a lot of the time in the libjava build is spent in libtool (versus > plain old ld). Perhaps that can be alleviated somehow. > Splitting libjava into multiple libraries would be a good start.
It would probably be a good thing for application start-up time to when using shared libs. R.