Re: [JAVA,libtool] Big libjava is biiiig.

Dave Korn wrote:

>   Not simple, but not so hard as to be impossible either; as it turns out, the
> internal structure of libgcj looks a lot like a turnip, with a bunch of skinny
> branchy foliage waving around on top, a few shallow roots spreading under the
> ground, and a big ball of hair in the middle holding it all together, which
> makes it actually quite easy to manually find a partition.
> 
>   There are a couple of regressions to solve first, but it appears that I've
> more-or-less cracked it.  Full details are written up here:
> 
>         http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Internal_dependencies_of_libgcj


Thank you for this.  One thing that you may like to consider is compiling
more packages with -findirect-dispatch -fno-indirect-classes.  This has a
smallish performance penalty, but packages compiled this way have no link-
time dependencies on other packages.  Instead, everything gets fixed up
at runtime.

Andrew.