Re: [Classpath] Re: Question about Boolean

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Jeff Sturm wrote:

> (I know someone who once had a usable libgcj runtime in 28KB of memory.
> I'll grant that that takes a lot of hacking anyway... he didn't even have
> a String class in his runtime.)

okay, how about:

class Boolean {
 Class TYPE = VMLoader.BooleanTYPE;
}

with VMLoader on gcj being something like:
class VMLoader {
 Class BooleanTYPE = boolean.class;
}
and VMLoader on sane VMs being:
class VMLoader { 
 Class BooleanTYPE = VMLoader.loadPrimitiveClass("boolean");
}

This has a total time over head of *nine loads*, executed *once* at the
beginning of the program.  Total space overhead is *nine words* (eleven,
if you need a header for VMLoader).  I think even your 28K system can get
by with this.

I don't see why portability is so difficult.
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