Hi David, sure we can introduce a way to switch this on/off. There is already something similar for the link-time optimization (flto) , see the feature
JvmFeatures.gmk 180 ifeq ($(call check-jvm-feature, link-time-opt), true) 190 ifeq ($(call check-jvm-feature, link-time-opt), false) hotspot.m4 29 static-build link-time-opt aot jfr" 502 JVM_FEATURES_link_time_opt="link-time-opt" Should we have "link-time-gc" additionally to " link-time-opt" ? (however it would be a bit misleading that it is a "JVM" feature , but except linux s390x it is only changing the build of the JDK libs) . Best regards, Matthias > > Hi Matthias, > > I have reservations about turning this on by default and with no way to > control it. This seems like it should be something you have to opt-in to > initially while we gain some experience with it and ensure there are no > unexpected side-effects. After that it could be enabled by default. >
