[fedora-java] [Patch] Improving gcj-dbtool performance

[Andrew Overholt]

* Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2005-03-11 05:03]:
> The problem is that the Eclipse installer is doing things in a very
> inefficient way.

It would have been nice to hear this before :)

> The most efficient way is to generate a separate map for each jar file,
> and then merge them all at the end.  This is very fast.  It also has the
> advantage that the resulting file is more compact.

The other problem here is that Tom Tromey's -f flag has yet to land in our
gcj RPMs.  That will allow us to create the dbs in %install and then just
merge them in %post so the end user will only see the merging and not the
actual creation.

Andrew