RFR: 8150044: Generate classlists at build-time

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/05/2016 15:05, Ioi Lam wrote:
> :
>
> Regarding the JDK changes, in HelloClasslist.java:
>
> Maybe add a comment about how/why you choose this particular set of 
> operations? When the JDK evolves in the future, how should this file 
> be changed?
>
> I notice that no GUI classes are used. Is the reason (a) GUI classes 
> are not important anymore, or (b) the build would fail in a headless 
> environment if GUI classes were used by HelloClasslist.java?
Good questions on what to put into HelloClasslist. For now, I think what 
Claes has is good. The important thing is that it captures the classes 
that are loaded during startup, esp with the module system being 
initialized as part of VM startup, also anything using lambda or streams 
means a lot of classes are loaded. So I think it's a good start and I 
doubt we want to put too much into it as otherwise the #classes will be 
huge and we will be back to a huge archive again.

Hard to know what to say about UI applications and getting something 
that is representative of modern applications. There is nothing stopping 
anyone creating their own classlist of course.

-Alan.