On 1/24/2014 7:17 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > You're not suggesting that we should apply that to our JARs, do you? Not really, unless we found a compelling use-case that had a good value (versus the risk).
At this point, I'm "fishing" for other people's experience using these. -Marshall > > -- Richard > > On 24.01.2014, at 18:39, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> While climbing some learning curves on the Android smartphone app platform, I >> learned about ProGuard, http://proguard.sourceforge.net/ , which among other >> things appears to shrink Jars by removing unused code, and doing various >> optimizations. (It also can do obfuscation, but that I don't think would be >> appropriate for an open source project :-) ). >> >> Some optimizations / shrinkages are described here >> http://proguard.sourceforge.net/#results.html >> >> The run-time classes from Oracle's Java 6 shrunk 53 M to 22 M. >> >> Apache Ant shrunk from 2.4M to 325K. >> >> I wonder what it would do on our binary distributions... >> >> -Marshall >
