RFR: 8264881: Remove the old development option MemProfiling

Yi Yang yyang at openjdk.java.net
Thu Apr 8 03:51:06 UTC 2021


On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 03:19:21 GMT, Yi Yang <yyang at openjdk.org> wrote:

> MemProfiler is a very old development option added at:
> 
> ^As 00018/00000/00000
> ^Ad D 1.1 98/04/14 13:18:32 renes 1 0
> ^Ac date and time created 98/04/14 13:18:32 by renes
> ^Ae
> 
> Today it doesn't work because it is untested and there is no reason/scenario to prove it is useful.
> 
> After a short discussion in https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/3340, I'd like to propose removing the memprofiler if there are no strong objections.
> 
> Thanks!
> Yang

Gentle query: I do find another three product options(UseNewCode\d) that do nothing, they have been added in JDK6 as initial load commit(Maybe early). Does anyone know what's the intention of adding these options? Is it reasonable to remove them now?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3393


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