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.

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