JDK-8255616 : Removal of experimental features AOT and Graal JIT
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: compiler
  • Affected Version: 16
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2020-10-29
  • Updated: 2021-04-07
  • Resolved: 2020-11-02
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JDK 16
16 b23Fixed
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Description
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 remove these features from 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.  We'll continue to build
and ship JVMCI as an experimental feature in Oracle builds.
Comments
Changeset: 2f7d34f2 Author: Vladimir Kozlov <kvn@openjdk.org> Date: 2020-11-02 16:04:46 +0000 URL: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/2f7d34f2
02-11-2020

I verified that with these changes I was 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 ============================== TEST TOTAL PASS FAIL ERROR jtreg:test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/graalunit/HotspotTest.java 1 1 0 0 ============================== TEST SUCCESS
30-10-2020