[armedbear-devel] Proposed solution to the "too many functions in FASL" problem

[Alessio Stalla]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Ville Voutilainen
<ville.voutilainen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 January 2011 16:22, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do you think? If it's not clear, both Erik and I sponsor the
>> solution of returning to a reflection-based approach, but we'd like to
>> hear everyone's opinions.
>
> I think it would perhaps be a good idea to revert to
> reflection-loading, put that
> revert into 0.24 before we release, and patch this idea in for 0.25.
> That is assuming that the
> revert is easy to do.

Reverting is hard, as the merge is 8 months old, stuff has changed
since, and not everything should be reverted. It'll be mostly a manual
process. So the less stuff is reverted, the better. That's part of the
reason for my last proposal.

A.