Re: [gwt-contrib] RFC: sharded linking

2010-02-12 Thread Matt Mastracci
On 2010-02-12, at 1:15 PM, Ray Cromwell wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Scott Blum sco...@google.com wrote: - I dislike the whole transition period followed by having to forcibly update all linkers, unless there's a really compelling reason to do so. In general, I'd agree, but the

Re: [gwt-contrib] RFC: sharded linking

2010-02-12 Thread Lex Spoon
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Scott Blum sco...@google.com wrote: I have a few comments, but first I wanted to raise the point that I'm not sure why we're having this argument about maximally sharded Precompiles at all. For one thing, it's already implemented, and optional, via

Re: [gwt-contrib] RFC: sharded linking

2010-02-11 Thread Scott Blum
I have a few comments, but first I wanted to raise the point that I'm not sure why we're having this argument about maximally sharded Precompiles at all. For one thing, it's already implemented, and optional, via -XshardPrecompile. I can't think of any reason to muck with this, or why it would

[gwt-contrib] RFC: sharded linking

2010-02-09 Thread Lex Spoon
This is a design doc about speeding up the link phase of GWT. If you don't maintain a linker, and if you don't have a multi-machine GWT build, then none of this should matter to you. If you do maintain a linker, let's make sure your linker can be updated with the proposed changes. If you do