> On 6 Apr 2016, at 16:45, Claes Redestad <claes.redes...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 04/06/2016 04:09 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote: >>> small streams become big rivers (i don't know the idiomatic sentence in >>> English, so it's a rough translation from a French idiom), >>> "Death by a thousand cuts" is one of my favorites:). A "flat profile" is >>> another description of a similar thing. >>> >> I still remain unconvinced in this case that such changes warrant an >> increase in unsafe usage (temporary or otherwise). >> > > I did not intend for this patch to spark any controversy - in my mind it was > just a rather straightforward and easy way to save a few Kbs (and some > theoretic startup time) on small program startup and I'm happy to withdraw it > based on the feedback. >
I don’t think there is any controversy. I just think we should place this one aside for the moment. We can revisit later on. Paul. > I do however think that reducing the dependency graph of things which are > loaded in this early has merits on its own, regardless of how much it > actually improves things. Using VHs here - or even in CHM - seems more > controversial to me than using Unsafe to take shortcuts in low-level class > libraries that need to boot fast and with as few dependencies as possible > (since that allows them to be used in more places). > > Thanks! > > /Claes
