July 20, 2005

New IKVM.NET RC and Fantastic Explanation of What Makes Up the Content of the IKVM.Gnu.Classpath.dll

IKVM.NET Weblog - Tuesday, July 19, 2005

When we started the Saxon.NET project over a year ago there was an interesting opportunity that was found in the IKVM.NET project. The very first offical release I started to work with the 0.8.0.0 release which, if you take a look at the graph that Jeroen has listed in this post you will notice was released on June 28th, 2004 such that it could be packaged and released with the 1.0 release of Mono. The next graph down shows the source code line count of the Gnu Classpath project which at that point in time was 550,000 lines, or half of what it is today.

Wow, those were fun days of hacking together a working Saxon.NET build :) I'd like to say I miss them, but I prefer the full nights sleep that comes from working with today's code base rather than the every third day's half a night's sleep I think I averaged back then.

Good times, good times...

Anyway, from Jeroen's post:

Assembly File Size

Yesterday's release candidate has a much smaller IKVM.GNU.Classpath.dll than the previous release candidate. As I noted this is due to some optimizations in the metadata. Let's look at the file size of IKVM.GNU.Classpath.dll over time:

You can also download the new Release Candidate via the post from the 18th.

As always, Thanks Jeroen! And adding to this... to everybody who has helped bring the Gnu Classpath project to where it is today... You've got all my love being sent your way right now :D Cheers to you all!