RFR: 8293499: Provide jmod --compress option [v5]

Aleksey Shipilev shade at openjdk.org
Tue Sep 13 17:41:04 UTC 2022


On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:21:52 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/jdk.jlink/share/classes/jdk/tools/jmod/resources/jmod.properties line 87:
>> 
>>> 85: main.opt.compress=Compression to use when creating the JMOD archive.\
>>> 86: \ Accepted values are: zip-[0-9], where zip-0 provides no compression, and zip-9\
>>> 87: \ provides the best compression.
>> 
>> Should specify the default if not set.
>
> Here is where we get into a minor pickle. We currently default to `Deflater.DEFAULT_COMPRESSION`, which is `-1`, and which is handled inside `zlib` as `6`. We can say `zip-6` here is the default, but that would be stale if zlib ever updates its default. Still fair to say `zip-6` here, or?

Actually, nevermind. Let's just put the defacto `6` into `jmod` defaults, and use it. See new commit.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10213


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