Re: [cp-patches] Patch: Opening RandomAccessFiles requires excessive permission

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:32 -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> You say "the generated code is smaller" but that depends on who generates
> the code (if you mean the generated Java bytecode, I'd guess you're wrong
> there too because of the extra exception table required). And that depends
> on which VM you're using.. which is my only point: it all depends, so you
> can't assume anything for sure.
> 
> I didn't really mean to criticize this change so much as the idea of
> initiating a wild goose chase of similar changes which may or may not
> actually improve anything.

Yeah, i didn't take it personally :-)  Of course i see your point, but
what i'm trying to say is, if we ever want to catch up (or even be
better) than sun or other proprietary JVMs, we should think about
optimizing some "core" functions in classpath...

TWISTI