On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:33:45 GMT, Dan Heidinga <heidi...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This PR loads the classes for the boot/platform/app loaders with
>> `AOTLinkedClassBulkLoader::preload_classes()`. This happens at the very
>> beginning of `vmClasses::resolve_all()`, before any Java code is executed.
>>
>> - We essentially iterate over all the classes inside the
>> `AOTLinkedClassTable` and adds them into the system dictionary using the new
>> method `SystemDictionary::preload_class()`.
>> - `SystemDictionary::preload_class(..., k)` is lightweight because it's
>> called in a single thread after all super types of `k` have been loaded. So
>> most of the complicated work (such as place holders, circularity detection,
>> etc) in `SystemDictionary::resolve_or_null(..., k)` can be skipped. We also
>> don't need to call into `ClassLoader::load_class()` as the boot/platform/app
>> loaders are well-behaved.
>> - In the assembly phase, we record the mirror, package, protection domain,
>> code source, etc, of these classes. So there's no need to programmatically
>> create them in the production run. See `HeapShared::copy_java_mirror()` and
>> also changes in ClassLoader.java and SecureClassLoader.java.
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/net/URL.java line 1768:
>
>> 1766:
>> 1767: @AOTRuntimeSetup
>> 1768: private static void runtimeSetup() {
>
> Slightly concerned with this for reasons I'm still trying to track down -
> Mostly around the `URLStreamHandler` that each URL instance holds onto.
>
> Can we create cases were the cached URLStreamHandler for a URL from the
> assembly phase would be different than the URLStreamHandler looked up in the
> production run?
Are there limits on the types of URLs we allow in the archived heap? ie: only
file or jar?
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26375#discussion_r2288785484
