Hello, the updated webrev is here :
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8223944.1/ Best regards, Matthias > > > On 2019-05-15 01:16, Baesken, Matthias wrote: > > Hi Alan, thanks for pointing me at the old discussion . > > > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2016- > February/016602.html > > > > talks about performance benefits . Are you aware of some benchmarks > that showed the improvements ? > > > > In reality, if you have the latest distro versions you might be lucky and > > you > have a nice recent zlib 1.2.11 . > > However on older distros , you run in reality into older zlibs (often I > > see > 1.2.8). I don't think that this is a very good status . > > > > > > At least I think building.md should be fixed to state the real status , > > the > current info is wrong : > > > > > > "Certain third-party libraries used by the JDK (libjpeg, giflib, libpng, > > lcms > > and zlib) are included in the JDK repository. The default behavior of the > > JDK build is to use this version of these libraries, but they might be > > replaced by an external version. To do so, specify `system` as the > `<source>` > > option in these arguments. (The default is `bundled`)." > > > > > > > > Btw how is building.html generated , is this coming from building.md ? > > Yes, you need to configure with pandoc. Then you run "make > update-build-docs". > > /Erik >
