Mark Wielaard wrote: > Another solution would be to encode the values in CharData not as > Strings but as actual char[] but that might be a lot less efficient > (source code may explode I mean, it shouldn't matter for the class > file).
Just the opposite IMHO. Source would be not longer, at least not much, class file on other hand would be a lot, lot larger. Instead of using utf8 for 16bits (2-3 bytes per entry), in bytecode it would equal to aload_n sipush index sipush value castore which is 8 bytes. If we would use integers, it is more or less the same - instead of sipush value, ldc constant_index would be used, plus extra space in class file constants pool. Artur _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
