On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:51:08 -0800, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>  
wrote:

> [BTW, I think there is some confusion with various posters what  
> "shrinking" means. For me it is the process of applying a heuristic to  
> determine which classes and methods can be removed. In other words, it  
> is NOT a process where a developer decides explicitly what gets removed,  
> which is why there is a certain amount of unpredictability and  
> randomness to it].

You're correct. I don't know that I'd trust an algorithm to do it. In  
fact, I'm rather sure I wouldn't.