On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:56:27 GMT, Ian Graves <igra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/jdk.jlink/share/classes/jdk/tools/jlink/internal/plugins/CompactConstantPoolsPlugin.java
>> line 48:
>>
>>> 46:
>>> 47: public CompactConstantPoolsPlugin() {
>>> 48: super("compact-constant-pools");
>>
>> This plugin needs a better option name. Maybe `--share-utf8-entries`?
>>
>> I also wonder if anyone really uses this plugin. It writes the shared UTF8
>> strings into the jimage. It incurs overhead in reconstructing the constant
>> pool when loading classes. So I wonder if we just drop this plugin -
>> @AlanBateman, @igraves what do you think?
>
> I think that deprecating the entire plugin could be appropriate, given the
> overhead, unless there's some performance data to the contrary. I haven't
> seen much in favor of keeping it, but I do think that breaking it apart from
> zip before deprecating it is also fine.
If we are planning to drop this, we will not need to introduce a new plugin
option but instead states that `--compress 1` will be deprecated and removed in
a future release.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11617
