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
>

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