RFR: 8293499: Provide jmod --compress option [v7]

Mandy Chung mchung at openjdk.org
Fri Sep 16 16:49:44 UTC 2022


On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:03:28 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I have been looking into `make clean-images images` performance, and realized jmod keeps compressing files with default compression level. Tuning that toward lighter compression levels improves build performance considerably, without a heavy loss in *.jmod sizes. 
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>> This PR allows JMOD to select the compression level. Follow-ups would use this in the build system, see #10214.
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>> The interesting asymmetry against `jlink` is: `jlink` provides `--compress` option that only takes `2` for "ZIP compression". (Separately, we could argue if it would be beneficial to extend `--compress` to `jlink` as well, so to select the compression level there too.)
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> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Cleanup quotes in parameter help

Marked as reviewed by mchung (Reviewer).

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


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