Re: [xmlvm-users] OneJar and XMLVM

[Lennie De V. <len...@gm...>]

This is one of the frustrations I'm starting to have to write
Android->iPhone apps.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Panayotis Katsaloulis
<pan...@pa...> wrote:
> On 17 Σεπ 2010, at 9:03 μ.μ., Arno Puder wrote:
>
>>
>> fact is that we will soon add quite a bit more to the OneJar. The source
>> code of the Boehm GC and (more importantly) the cross-compiled version
>> of the OpenJDK. Especially the latter will increase the size of the
>> OneJar significantly.
>>
>> In principle I like the OneJar approach for its simplicity: everything
>> is bundled in one jar. However, we should make sure that the
>> jar-inside-jar for huge files does not have any significant performance
>> impact. If that should be the case, we definitely need to abandon the
>> OneJar approach.
>
>
> I totally agree. But I do think that the one jar approach makes system slow. For example, if you run xmlvm with no command line arguments, there is a significant time before displaying the help text, in order to unzip the contents of the file. This is an obvious problem but I also thing there are other performance issues elsewhere.
>
> One thing I thought and didn't discuss it is, if we want to develop a java-based iphone application, only the xml2objc jar should could be added to the project and not everything. Similar with Android projects... :) This will decrease developer frustration - I think.
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