RFR: 8264805: Remove the experimental Ahead-of-Time Compiler [v4]

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 04:32:14 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> This looks good to me - I went through all the files.
> 
> It was nice to see how nicely compartmentalized the AOT feature was - that made checking the changes quite simple. The one exception was the fingerprinting code, which for some reason was AOT-only but not marked that way, so I'm not sure what the story is there. ??
> 
> I was also surprised to see some of the flags were not marked experimental, so there will need to a CSR request to remove those without going through the normal deprecation process.
> 
> Thanks,
> David

Thank you, David.
We thought that we could use fingerprint code for other cases that is why we did not put it under `#if INCLUDE_AOT`.
I filed CSR for AOT product flags removal: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8265000

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3398