Re: more fun with packing

"Judson, Ross" <rjudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I thought it would be interesting to see what a combination of autojar
> and my own packload utility could do to the .39 version of sbazgui. Here
> are the results.
> 
> Before -- the original JAR files have these sizes:
> 
> sbazgui.jar       - 157,110
> sbaz.jar          - 342,329
> scala-library.jar - 1,529,187
> 
> I ran autojar using its -d mode, then used packbuild on that result of
> that. It results in a dependency-filtered, packed version of
> sbazgui.jar:
> 
> sbazgui.jar       - 106,957

Neat!

Note that the original jars include full Scala symbol information, so
un-needed methods and classes are not the only reason for the extra size.

-Lex