RFR [8u60]: 8081590: The CDS classlist needs to be updated for 8u60

[David Holmes]

Hi Claes,

On 12/06/2015 12:08 AM, Claes Redestad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> classlists have been slowly deteriorating since the last refresh
> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023041),
> contributing to a small but significant degradation in startup and
> footprint characteristics.
>
> While there are also classlist files for Solaris, Mac and AIX, we cannot
> run the same set of applications we run on
> 32-bit platforms on non-32-bit platforms (due to an application with a
> bundled 32-bit dependency).
>
> Rather than generating new classlists using a different set of
> applications without ability to verify that it helps, I'd
> rather limit this 8u60 refresh to Linux and Windows where we can verify
> the benefit and do a more thorough
> investigation into modernizing the representative set of applications
> for JDK9 and onwards.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8081590/webrev.00/
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8081590

As you have sorted the lists differently it's not evident what has been 
added or removed. Please clarify what the changes actually are.

> I'll need a sponsor to push this to 8u60.

I can sponsor it once completed. Make sure all the CDS tests still pass. 
(There may be something that looks for a specific class.)

Thanks,
David

>
> /Claes