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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:11:00 -0000
From: Joel Dice <joel.dice@gmail.com>
To: Monty Hall <hall_monty@rastar.merseine.nu>
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Subject: Re: gcj for j2me
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Monty Hall wrote:

> Anybody had success compiling j2me code w/ gcj?  I've noticed that javac 
> doesn't do a stellar job doing compile time optimization and that very 
> limited mobile device jvm's pretty much don't do optimization.  Would be 
> handy to do compile time optimizations for mobile devices.  Any pointers 
> appreciated.

ProGuard (http://proguard.sourceforge.net) does static bytecode 
optimization, including some pretty impressive whole-program optimizations 
like devirtualization and inlining across interface calls.  That might be 
the easiest solution if your target device already has a VM.