What is Overload Induction?
Overload Induction is DashO’s patented renaming system. It induces method overloading on a massive scale. This algorithm determines all opportunities for name reuse and takes advantage of them. Many of our customers have reported a full 33% of ALL methods were renamed to a single character (such as “a”). Typically, 10% more are renamed to “b”, etc. The algorithm is certainly not limited to renaming to single characters, however, the impetus behind the development of this algorithm was to make the absolute smallest Java executables as possible. Standard renaming algorithms find a name such as “getX” and universally rename all instances of that string to another smaller string (again, such as “a”). Unfortunately, after that point, the character “a” can never be reused for fear of method name collisions. The Overload-Induction renaming system determines all collision points and calculates the minimal set of legal names.
