RFR: 8346986: Remove ASM from java.base [v3]

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:39:20 GMT, Adam Sotona <asotona at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Jtreg seems to have no problems to use ASM as a declared library.

Whan you say "no problems", I guess you are referring to the pass rate of the tests. But how does it affect the runtime spent doing testing?

I must insist that "just moving" code from `src` to `test` is not at all like moving code internally inside `src` or inside `test`, and that it is not at all an obviously trivial operation.

I understand that you want to remove ASM from the source base, and I do not object to that goal. I'm just saying that having tests that rely on code being present is basically just the same as having code in `src` relying on it, and that moving the entire source base to ASM is perhaps not the right way to deal with this remaining dependency.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22946#issuecomment-2583277826