I made some changes for debugging in jdk8. jdk ran for 9.5 min and images for a little over 13 min. I'm currently changing code in javax.swing, javax.accessibility, and java.beans. All those live in rt.jar so it would be nice to be able to copy a newly built rt.jar to an existing image without having to rebuild the images. However, I didn't find rt.jar in the jdk tree. Does it exist; maybe I just missed it?
I know those are long build times but after trying lots of things I haven't had any success in getting to the low build times others experience. A new SSD should arrive today so hopefully that will be running by tomorrow. I'll report the results of that in another thread. So maybe I won't care about build times after that but I suspect there are others on the list also suffering from long build times who would be interested in the answer to the above question. Pete
