Method count has nothing to do with size.
Nobody ever said that. It should still be obvious though that 30kB can't even remotely fit the method overhead you are claiming. Look at your own link: Java => 16,306 Scala => 67,608 (Already in multidex territory)
I even read it! I suggest you do the same. And if you do grow an app past the point of being trivial as that example is Proguard
gains will not be nearly as drastic
They are. Been there, done that.You pay for exactly the stuff you are using, just like with every other library. Your measure of "how long it takes to pick up a phone" is far from scientific", but
to compare, not a single app[sic] non-trivial app I've worked on is so simple that
installing a fully compiled APK over ADB would be less than a 5-10 second process.
Well, it works without issues here. How many apps did you develop with the SBT-Android plugin to be so damn sure about its capabilities? That would leave 0-5 seconds for the entire app to build, proguard, and predex (with
multidex). Not possible.
Perfectly possible. Used that for a while now. To me the proof is in the pudding, if there were real gains to be had with Scala it'd
have more traction than it does.
That only seems to be a proof that good marketing is more important than good technology. |