Re: Facts about the Java class file format

"Greg Morrisett" <jgm@CS.Cornell.EDU>
24 Oct 1998 01:46:59 -0400

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From: "Greg Morrisett" <jgm@CS.Cornell.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Oct 1998 01:46:59 -0400
Organization: Cornell University
References: 98-10-108 98-10-129
Keywords: Java

>[It also occurs to me that small size is important when you're
>transferring a Java app, but less important when you're running it.
>Netscape ships their Java code in zip files, where it's typically
>compressed by about 50%. How much better than that is anyone likely
>to do and still have a format that's useful for execution? -John]


There was a paper in PLDI ('97?) by Steve Lucco and either Dave
Hanson or Chris Frasier that described a way to get much better
compression on "binaries" than what you get with gzip.


-Greg

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