8170987: Module system implementation refresh (12/2016)

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/12/2016 14:13, Claes Redestad wrote:

>
> The context here, I assume, is the increased startup cost to initialize
> java.util.regex in 9 (and a few regression fixes related to this that
> I've done in the area which may have involved avoiding adding a
> regex-free fast path for trivial but common cases):
Yes although it's not an issue at this time.. Looking at it again then 
we should be able to decompose it at link time and generate code that 
reconstitutes it from its parts. That would avoid needing to reparse at 
startup.

-Alan