Transitive AOT Compilation

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• Interop
  • To consume a Java API
    • Concrete derivation (gen-class)
    • Naming/packaging conventions
  • To expose an API to Java code
    • deftype/record/protocol/interface
  • Deployment environments
    • Special classloaders, e.g. OSGi, Eclipse
• Application delivery
  • Main method (gen-class)
    • Mitigated by "-m" option to clojure.main
  • Bytecode post-processing
    • Android/Dalvik
  • Faster startup
    • Only an issue in constrained environments like Android
  • Hide source code from consumers
• Vet Syntax check & reflection warnings
  Syntax check
  • Not necessary, but Doesn't require writing files to disk
  • But still a common use case for invoking the compiler
  • Some tools support emitting .class files to temp dir
    • e.g. Mark Derricutt's clojure-maven-plugin

What do we want to AOT-compile?

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