RFR: 8156484: ZipFile retains too much native memory from caching Inflaters

[Alan Bateman]

On 20/05/2016 07:25, Peter Levart wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
>
> On 05/20/2016 12:04 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> I would make e.g. the change to Resource an independent change.
>
> I agree. It's just that if we measure the impact of ZipFile changes to 
> class loading, for example, we should measure them with this change 
> included so that we get the optimal caching strategy implemented. 
> After we settle on the ZipFile changes, we can strip-off this 
> independent change and propose it separately.
I agree too. Also it would be good to keep the follow on changes to code 
like BuiltinClassLoader to a minimum as we have quite a few changes come 
that will replace sections of this.

-Alan