[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Haley) wrote on 30.04.05 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Matt Thomas writes: > > Joe Buck wrote: > > > I think you need to talk to the binutils people. It should be possible > > > to make ar and ld more memory-efficient. > > > > Even though systems maybe demand paged, having super large > > libraries that consume lots of address space can be a problem. > > > > I'd like to libjava be split into multiple shared libraries. In C, > > we have libc, libm, libpthread, etc. In X11, there's X11, Xt, etc. > > So why does java have everything in one shared library? Could the > > swing stuff be moved to its own? Are there other logical > > divisions? > > It might be nice, certainly. However, there are some surprising > dependencies between parts of the Java library, and these would cause > separate shared libraries to depend on each other, negating most of > the advantage of separation. > > We are in the process of rewriting the Java ABI so that sumbol > resolution in libraries is done lazily rather than eagerly. This will > help. Even so, I would prefer to divide libjava -- if it is to be > divided -- on a logical basis rather than simply in order to make > libraries smaller. Surely the other mentioned library divisions (libc, X) were *also* done on a logical basis?! MfG Kai
