[JFR incubator] [RFR] JDK-8238590: Enable JFR by default during compilation in 8u

[Mario Torre]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:43 AM Ben Evans <bevans at newrelic.com> wrote:
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> Hi Mario,
>
> Some of our teams have reported noticeable performance regressions on JDK8 + JFR even with JFR disabled at runtime.
>
> I am investigating further but don't have solid evidence that I can share yet - but I would urge everyone who wants this backport to happen (at NR we very much do) to do as much performance regression testing as possible. It would not be a good look if adding this feature caused problems for other users.
>

Thanks Ben,

I am about to prepare a new webrew for general testing based on all
the latest fix we introduced in the last couple of weeks, I appreciate
this kind of feedback on the new bundle, especially if it can be
substantiated by some numbers.

Cheers,
Mario


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Mario Torre
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