On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:39:34 GMT, Xin Liu <x...@openjdk.org> wrote: > > How about this: > > ``` > > jcmd VM.classes -verbose classname classname ... > > ``` > > > > -verbose is optional > > more than one classnames can be specified. > > if no classnames are specified, all classes are printed > > If the class name here means the "fully-qualified" class name, I guess it's > not practical to input multiple classnames like > "java.lang.invoke.LambdaForm$MH/0x0000000800c0b400" in cmdline. > > The main cost of VM_PrintClasses should be the traversal of all classes. I > feel a filter won't save much runtime time. We can leave it to the external > awk scripts. What do you think?
That sounds fair. I think for filtering it's best left to external tools. I think we should use `-verbose` as the optional argument, to be consistent with other jcmds such as ` VM.symboltable` ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7105
