JEP 483 is implemented as a series of RFEs to make it easy to review the individual components. 
RFEs [1] ~ [7] below will be integrated into the mainline repo at the same time.

The RFEs will be implemented in this order. [1] ~ [7] will be reviewed in github as dependent PRs.

+-- status.  d = in development; p = PR in progress; R = fully reviewed
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R [1] JDK-8338017 Add AOT command-line flag aliases [CSR: JDK-8338243]
R [2] JDK-8338018 Rename ClassPrelinker to AOTConstantPoolResolver
R [3] JDK-8329706 Implement -XX:+AOTClassLinking [CSR: JDK-8339506]
R [4] JDK-8293187 Store initialized Enum classes in AOTCache
R [5] JDK-8293337 Store method handle intrinsics in AOTCache
R [6] JDK-8311071 Avoid SoftReferences in LambdaFormEditor and MethodTypeForm when storing heap objects into AOT cache 
R [7] JDK-8293336 AOT-linking of invokedynamic for lambda expression and string concat

d [8] JDK-8329710 Sample benchmarking data for -XX:+AOTClassLinking