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Date:      Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:42:57 -0400
From:      erob <erob@videotron.ca>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/63427: Disabling the Java frontend at compile time
Message-ID:  <20040706204257.GA63172@none>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0407061936550.35158@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
References:  <200407052102.i65L2ikG066536@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040705223416.GA488@none> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0407061936550.35158@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

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On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 07:41:24PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Etienne Robillard wrote:
> > You're probably right about the complexity thing.
> > However, I doubt that disabling libgcj is sufficient (in my case)
> > in areas like saving compilation time and/or space.
> 
> Perhaps you could conduct an experiment and check how much compilation
> time and/or space you will save when disabling the Java frontend per se,
> and not just libgcj?
> 
> I'd be interested to see the differences between
>  - full gcc34 port
>  - gcc34 port without libgcj
>  - gcc34 port without libgcj and the whole Java frontend
> 
> If the data is convincing, I'm still worried about the complexity thing,
> but if there is a worthwhile payoff and one of my fellow ports committers
> who has more experience in this area is willing to review the patch, I'll
> let this convince myself. :-)  Deal?
> 
> Gerald

Sure, no problem. 
I'll set this up and get back to you as soon as I get some results. 

Regards,
Etienne


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