[security-dev 00466]: hg: jdk7/tl/jdk: 6496274: jar seems to use more CPU than it should

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 06:57 +0000, xueming.shen at sun.com wrote:
> Changeset: 57dc40ece164
> Author:    sherman
> Date:      2008-12-17 22:50 -0800
> URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/57dc40ece164
> 
> 6496274: jar seems to use more CPU than it should
> Summary: boost jar creating performance especially for the large jar file
> Reviewed-by: martin
> 
> ! src/share/classes/sun/tools/jar/Main.java

Heay, this is a pretty cool patch.
In IcedTea we explicitly added an configure option to work around the
slowness (especially on platforms that only have the zero interpreter
available):
  --with-alt-jar  specify the location of an alternate jar binary to
                  use for building
So you can build against fastjar (a plain C GPLed jar implementation) to
work around the same issue. Fixing the java based jar implementation
directly is way cooler though (we really should backport this after some
testing).

Is there a way to raise awareness of stuff like this that people are
working on? If I hadn't seen the mercurial commit email I might have
completely missed it. I assume there is some way to get alerts from the
bug tracker where this was first reported. Could should bug reports be
send to the mailinglist somehow? And I see this actually has a
"Reviewed-by" tag, but I never saw the original patch proposal, nor the
review on any mailinglist (I might have missed it though, I am only
subscribed to half of the mailinglists). If there was a code patch
review mailinglist for patches like these I would certainly subscribe.

Thanks,

Mark