Efficiency of service lookup in layers

[Alan Bateman]

On 24/03/2016 16:34, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> While investigating the JAXP default implementation issue (see 
> core-libs-dev), I discovered that when ServiceLoader is loading 
> services from a Layer, it is simply iterating every module in the 
> layer to find implementations.
It was indexed until recently, the indexing was (deliberately) removed 
when doing API refactoring. It's not currently an issue because it's not 
used by anything yet. I suspect this will be completely replaced when we 
get to looking at issues like ordering of service providers.

-Alan.