Please implement client switch in 64-bit server JDK 14 builds

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Aug 9 13:18:01 UTC 2019


On 8/8/19 7:52 PM, John Rose wrote:
> But I’ll end where I started:  Such combo switches tends to be unpleasant to maintain,
> because their meaning must shift over time, and so (I think) they never really please
> the end users.

True, but the current situation is a real PITA. When someone says
"Java is huge! Why can't it be smaller!" it'd be nice to be able to
give them a simple (if crude) answer.

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