[GROOVY-4157] groovyall.jar is too heavy, can we reduce it?

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: lwh
• Created: 09/Apr/10 00:07
• Updated: 08/Jun/12 08:34
• Resolved: 08/Jun/12 08:33

Description

I like groovy but the groovy-all*.jar is too big. sth should do now.
there are so many source code is for java1.4, we can rewrite them in java 1.5 to make groovy slim.
for example:
src/main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/ArrayUtil.java (ArrayUtil.class 1,093,546B)
src/main/org/codehaus/groovy/reflection/MethodHandle.java
src/main/org/codehaus/groovy/runtime/callsite/AbstractCallSite.java
we can reduce ArrayUtil.class to 909B!!! if we rewrite like this:

public class ArrayUtil {
    private static final Object[] EMPTY = new Object[0];

    public static Object[] createArray() {
        return EMPTY;
    }

    public static Object[] createArray(Object... args) {
        return args;
    }
}

1,759 KB groovy-all-1.0-JSR-06.jar
2,238 KB groovy-all-1.0.jar
2,762 KB groovy-all-1.5.4.jar
2,775 KB groovy-all-1.5.5.jar
2,784 KB groovy-all-1.5.6.jar
4,536 KB groovy-all-1.6.3.jar
4,399 KB groovy-all-1.6.4.jar
4,448 KB groovy-all-1.6.7.jar
4,054 KB groovy-all-1.6.jar
4,922 KB groovy-all-1.7-beta-2.jar
5,119 KB groovy-all-1.7.1.jar
5,165 KB groovy-all-1.7.2.jar

Issue Links

• depends upon: GROOVY-3968 Use Pack200 for further streamlining the Groovy JARs
• depends upon: GROOVY-4160 Gradle build
• depends upon: GROOVY-1712 Source and test reorganization and Groovy core / gdk artifacts
• relates to: GROOVY-3366 reduce method variants in org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ArrayUtil