Re: [xmlvm-users] Java shrinkers

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

On 31 Αυγ 2010, at 7:18 μ.μ., Sascha Haeberling wrote:

> Panayotis,
> 
> just to understand your proposal: Are you talking about trying to reduce the amount of code we need to translate based on a call graph analysis? Thus throwing out methods that are never called in an application and classes that are never referenced?
> 
> // Sascha

Yes, exactly.
There are already some projects, which do that. Having only class-based dependency is rather expensive, so unfortunately projects like ProGuard is of minimum help.

I don't know why yGuard which does method-based analysis didn't work, but 1) we can investigate it, 2) bug report it 3) try another library :)
I suspect it had to do with some Scala optimizations; probably with pure Java code we won't have this problem. Still I believe that a more generic solution (i.e. one that also supports other JVM-based languages, like Scala) should be considered.