JEP proposed to target JDK 24: 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking

[Mark Reinhold]

2024/11/7 14:41:17 -0500, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 24:
> 
>   483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/483
> 
>   Summary: Improve startup time by making the classes of an application
>   instantly available, in a loaded and linked state, when the
>   HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts.  Achieve this by monitoring the
>   application during one run and storing the loaded and linked forms of
>   all classes in a cache for use in subsequent runs.  Lay a foundation
>   for future improvements to both startup and warmup time.
> 
> 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 20:00 UTC on Thursday, 14 November, 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 24.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 24.

- Mark