[8u] RFR: 8210761: libjsig is being compiled without optimization

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 2:27 PM Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 14:21 +0200, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> >
> > One curious question though about the original bug, was this really a
> > measurable performance issue? I would have thought that libjsig is
> > not invoked often enough for this to make a difference..
>
> It's a matter of missed optimizations. We've got tooling in RHEL 8
> which checks for native libraries which aren't being optimized. This
> was one of the flagged libs throughout all of OpenJDK. While it
> probably isn't needed for performance reasons, it's probly also just an
> oversight that opt flags didn't get passed properly for this library.
> It shouldn't do any harm.
>

Thanks for clarifying!

Cheers, Thomas


> Thanks,
> Severin
>
>