JDK-6629150 : Multithreaded javac
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javac
  • Affected Version: 6,7
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2007-11-13
  • Updated: 2014-07-10
  • Resolved: 2014-07-10
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Description
Our industry is clearly shifting from a CPU with fast single core to a CPU with lots of individually slower core. This is particularly true with Sun and its Niagara offering.

Despite the trend, javac in JDK6 is a single-threaded application, which means it cannot take advantages of modern multi-core CPUs. And we can only expect this pain to get worse as the shift toward multi-core spreads further.

So this RFE is to request the compiler team to introduce parallelism to javac.

Comments
EVALUATION See proposed patch in 6713663
12-06-2008