[antlr-interest] Antlr dependencies

[Laurent Caillette]

Maybe you could consider using a jar obfuscator, which shortens method
names and removes unused code. Tools of that kind claim to make the
code 30% smaller.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Jim Idle <jimi at temporal-wave.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:51 -0300, me tk82c wrote:
>
> Hello Jim,
>
>     We're talking about a JAR file of 1.4mb that is huge to many cell phones
> :-(
>
> No, you are looking at the wrong Jar :-). That is the jar that contains the
> tool and so on. The runtime  only jar is currently:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 jimi jimi 138042 2008-10-28 15:47
> antlr-runtime-3.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
>
> You can probably make this smaller by un-jaring it, and removing some of the
> debugging and string template stuff (assuming that you are not using that).
> Check with reference to the source. Hmm, maybe I can make a deployment
> target for Maven with an ME oriented runtime that is smaller than that, but
> you can certainly do it manually, unjar, carefully remove .class files you
> don't need (and that are not essential), rejar.
>
> Jim
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