On Oct 7, 2013, at 8:30 AM, cowwoc <cow...@bbs.darktech.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Where did the old debug builds of rt.jar go (meaning, rt.jar with full > debug symbols, even for local variables)? I scanned the mailing list for a > related discussion but couldn't find anything. It looks like somewhere down > the line a decision was made to remove these builds, but it's not clear why > that was. Also, out of curiosity, what is the overhead of the full debug > symbols (versus what we ship now)? Couldn't we ship a full-debug rt.jar with > the JDK and ship the smaller rt.jar with the JRE?
+1 on shipping debug builds with the JDK, that would be very helpful for those of us who are stupid^Wcurious enough to step-debug into JDK classes.
