RFR: JDK-8166948: Exploded image too slow to be usable

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Sep 30 10:06:16 UTC 2016


On 30/09/2016 09:03, Erik Joelsson wrote:

> During the build process, we create an exploded image as an interim 
> step before linking the real JDK and JRE images. This exploded image 
> is used both for running certain build tools during the build but is 
> also used by developers when needing a quick build-test cycle since 
> the exploded image is much faster to build incrementally.
>
> Lately, with newer Jigsaw features, the exploded image has become very 
> slow to run. This is caused by the runtime needing to index all 
> packages in all modules at startup. In a linked image, this data is 
> pregenerated, but in the exploded case, it's not. There have been 
> reports of this taking up to 4-5 seconds on certain configurations.
>
> To fix this, we can add a new build tool that is run on the exploded 
> image, which updates the module-info.class files with this package 
> index. This will also have the benefit of also speeding up jmod and 
> jlink when run during the build.
>
> Alan provided the tool and I have modified the build to use it.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166948
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8166948/webrev.01/
>
>
The build changes looks okay to me. The only thing is that all tools 
using BUILD_JIGSAW_TOOLS are invoked with the same --add-exports, not 
really an issue but I could imagine needing to split those out sometime.

-Alan



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