RFR: 8255616: Disable AOT and Graal in Oracle OpenJDK

[Andrew Haley]

On 30/10/2020 17:47, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> We shipped Ahead-of-Time compilation (the jaotc tool) in JDK 9, as an experimental feature. We shipped Graal as an experimental JIT compiler in JDK 10. We haven't seen much use of these features, and the effort required to support and enhance them is significant. We therefore intend to disable these features in Oracle builds as of JDK 16. 

That makes sense: people using AOT compilation are using Graal Subtrate
VM-derived builds. If jaouts is left in and no-one builds it, it'll rot.
We'll see.

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