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Re: "compile-file" not use compression?
- From: Stephen Compall <s11 at member dot fsf dot org>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: kawa at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:43:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: "compile-file" not use compression?
- References: <47DE69A6.5080006@gmail.com> <47DE8CDB.9000005@bothner.com>
Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
> Can anyone think of a reason why we might want compile-file
> to emit uncompressed .zip archives?
Some VM interpreting Java bytecode directly could mmap whole zip
archives to avoid using heap space for the bytecode from uncompressed
classes. I don't know whether any VM does this, though.
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