RFR: 8264805: Remove the experimental Ahead-of-Time Compiler [v4]

[Ioi Lam]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 17:24:38 GMT, Vladimir Kozlov <kvn at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> As part of [JEP 410](http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410) remove code related to Ahead-of-Time Compiler from JDK: 
>> 
>> - `jdk.aot` module — the `jaotc` tool 
>> - `src/hotspot/share/aot` — loads AoT compiled code into VM for execution 
>> - related HotSpot code guarded by `#if INCLUDE_AOT` 
>> 
>> Additionally, remove tests as well as code in makefiles related to AoT compilation.
>> 
>> Tested hs-tier1-4
>
> Vladimir Kozlov has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove exports from Graal module to jdk.aot

LGTM. Just a small nit.

src/hotspot/share/oops/methodCounters.cpp line 77:

> 75: }
> 76: 
> 77: void MethodCounters::metaspace_pointers_do(MetaspaceClosure* it) {

MethodCounters::metaspace_pointers_do can be removed altogether (also need to remove the declaration in methodCounter.hpp).

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Marked as reviewed by iklam (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3398