Re: [xmlvm-dev] C backend and library

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

On 6/11/11 10:16 PM, Jeff Palmer wrote:
> Saw this thread&  all the system level responses.  Android's use of Proguard
> is at application level.  Staying at the application level, I have a
> question.  If a xmlvm user had a large library jar, not RJE, that was only
> slightly being used, would any of the un-used methods, end up in the final
> program?  I care as much about output size as build time.

The only optimization XMLVM does is on class-level, i.e., once a class 
is pulled in to the compilation process, all its methods and fields will 
be included. XMLVM's dependency analysis is conservative: a class gets 
included the moment it gets referenced from the application.

> Just wondering, since the user could always run everything through Proguard,
> before they even get to you.  I was using Proguard for Android a year before
> they actually supported it.

Probably a useful way to reduce the size. I don't think we should try to 
replicate Proguards functionality in XMLVM.

Arno