Erik:
During the hotspot makefile conversion, we have been reminded of inefficiencies when running make in Cygwin.
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Since these improvements affect much more than just the new hotspot build, I intend to push this to JDK 9 directly.Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8146403 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8146403/webrev.01/
Looks good to me. Thanks for doing this. Tim