Re: [xmlvm-users] Groovy in XMLVM

[Sascha H. <sa...@xm...>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Jochen Theodorou <bla...@gm...>wrote:

> Sascha Haeberling wrote:
>
>> Hi Jochen,
>>
>> as Groovy is producing class files which contain regular Java Bytecode,
>> there shouldn't be any issue to process applications developed using Groovy
>> with XMLVM. I haven't tried that myself yet though.
>>
>
> the problem is that a rather big groovy-core lib is about 5MB big. We are
> planing to split it up though.
>

I see! Well, we are currently doing a lot of work in the area of dependency
analysis for the C output. We just analyzed parts of the JDK ad selected an
interesting sub-set. In addition we do a very naive dependency analysis,
which further reduces the classes that are pulled in for a given
application. Might be worth a try at some point.


>
> [...]
>
>  As for Groovy Apps on Android: it seems to me that all you need to do is
>> run the Groovy-generated class files through the DEX compiler, no?
>>
>
> Oh that works of course. Only that Groovy is so slow, that it is unusable
> there


Oh, so you mean the groovy classes that are compiled to DEX are too slow?


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