Re: native java libraries
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:37:58AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote:
> Why don't we optionally compile the jars when the package is installed on the
> users machine?
> This would save a lot of archive space.
> it would take longer to install java packages if you have this option enabled,
> but as it is up to the user to enable precompilation, this shouldn't be a
> problem.
>
> > When these .so files are present (in the correct location,
> > registered with the correct mechanism) gij will load them automatically
> > and use them in the place of the corresponding .jar file.
> this is very good, as it doesn't need the packages to be changed to use the
> native libaries...
>
> does this sound reasonable? if yes, I'll try to hack some debhelper scripts
> that do the magic...
As discussed earlier this is a huge task with no clear benefit. We have
to solve some issues before we can even consider doing it: We need GCJ 4.0
in unstable and someone needs to make performance tests to proof this gains
anything at all. For more reasons see earlier threads.
Michel
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