JEP proposed to target JDK 17: 410: Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 17:

  410: Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler
       https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410

  Summary: Remove the experimental Java-based ahead-of-time (AOT) and
  just-in-time (JIT) compiler.  This compiler has seen little use since
  its introduction and the effort required to maintain it is significant.
  Retain the experimental Java-level JVM compiler interface (JVMCI) so
  that developers can continue to use externally-built versions of the
  compiler for JIT compilation.

Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
are raised by 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 22 April, or if they’re raised and
then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
I’ll target this JEP to JDK 17.

- Mark


[1] https://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk
[2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html