Miscellaneous jar improvements

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/10 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 13:20 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> 2009-09-10  Andrew Haley  <aph at redhat.com>
>>
>>       * patches/icedtea-jar-misc.patch: Import patch from upstream
>>       OpenJDK 6.
>>       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/b35f1e5075a4
>>
>>
>> This is a patch to make jar much faster.  On Zero targets, this much
>> improves the build time, which is very painful on the distro builders.
>>
>> OK for IcedTea trunk and 1.6 branch?
>
> Yes, I would like to see that speedup! Martin claimed on some setup it
> reduced the rt.jar building to just 2 seconds (!). Seeing that building
> rt.jar currently is one of the most time consuming steps in the build
> that would be fantastic.
>
> I think this is fine, it comes with extra tests and is already in jdk7
> and jdk6. If the speedup claims are true it would be good to get this
> sooner rather than later.
>

Yes please! Don't know how I missed this one, I saw the thread start
but didn't see it turn into a commit.

> But lets also try to encourage jdk6 to make a new release soon.
>

Which translates as encourage them to fix jcheck -- because the
release is planned, it's waiting on the hs14 merge.

> Thanks for testing and backporting this,
>
> Mark
>
>

Likewise,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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