You're not suggesting that we should apply that to our JARs, do you? -- Richard
On 24.01.2014, at 18:39, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> 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
