If a server or client does not require client/server authentication, it is not necessary to load the trust manager/store at all. Lazy loading of trust manager could be a big performance improvement of SunJSSE provider bootup.
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No plans to fix this at this time. If further analysis reveals this as a big performance issue, feel free to reopen.
26-01-2022
Reassigning to myself to see if this is a better fix for JDK-8129988.
06-06-2016
This could also potentially be a better solution for JDK-8129988.