classlist.* and jar_reorder ? (original) (raw)

Kelly Ohair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Tue Jul 3 15:00:29 UTC 2012

not sure anyone ever created docs on it

it lists the hot classes as i recall and the intention was to force a particular class order in rt.jar for performance reasons, like the mapfiles forced hot native functions into fewer pages on solaris

There is a JarReorder class or build tool in the make directory that gets this list and the actual list creates a new one to supply jar when rt.jar gets made in Release.gmk

it was created around the time of class data sharing in hotspot and might be related to that

i worked on the JarReorder tool but that is just a tool

hope this helps

my thumb is tired now :(

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On Jul 2, 2012, at 23:54, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

Can someone explain to me, or point me to docs, regarding the make/tools/sharing/classlist.* files, how they are used and maintained and what jarreorder does with them?

Thanks, David

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