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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>java@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Java</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| |
| <longdescription> |
| ASM is a Java bytecode manipulation framework. It can be used to |
| dynamically generate stub classes or other proxy classes, directly in |
| binary form, or to dynamically modify classes at load time, i.e., just |
| before they are loaded into the Java Virtual Machine. |
| |
| ASM offers similar functionalities as BCEL or SERP, but is much more |
| smaller (25KB instead of 350KB for BCEL and 150KB for SERP) and faster |
| than these tools (the overhead of a load time class transformation is of |
| the order of 60% with ASM, 700% or more with BCEL, and 1100% or more |
| with SERP). Indeed ASM was designed to be used in a dynamic way* and was |
| therefore designed and implemented to be as small and as fast as |
| possible. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |