On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 20:15:01 GMT, Igor Veresov <ivere...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We shipped Ahead-of-Time compilation (the jaotc tool) in JDK 9, as an 
>> experimental feature. We shipped Graal as an experimental JIT compiler in 
>> JDK 10. We haven't seen much use of these features, and the effort required 
>> to support and enhance them is significant. We therefore intend to disable 
>> these features in Oracle builds as of JDK 16. 
>> 
>> We'll leave the sources for these features in the repository, in case any 
>> one else is interested in building them. But we will not update or test them.
>> 
>> We'll continue to build and ship JVMCI as an experimental feature in Oracle 
>> builds.
>> 
>> Tested changes in all tiers.
>> 
>> I verified that with these changes I still able to build Graal in open repo 
>> and run graalunit testing: 
>> 
>> `open$ bash test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/graalunit/downloadLibs.sh 
>> /mydir/graalunit_lib/`
>> `open$ bash configure --with-debug-level=fastdebug 
>> --with-graalunit-lib=/mydir/graalunit_lib/ --with-jtreg=/mydir/jtreg`
>> `open$ make jdk-image`
>> `open$ make test-image`
>> `open$ make run-test TEST=compiler/graalunit/HotspotTest.java`
>
> Marked as reviewed by iveresov (Reviewer).

Thank you for reviews.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/960

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