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		necubi on Feb 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The JVM is not that heavy This is officially supported in JDK 9. It's part of an ongoing project called "jigsaw" which is introducing modules to the JVM. The first step, shipping in 9, is to modularize the JDK [0]. Already today you can build a custom JDK in the early access release. [0] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/200

kodablah on Feb 1, 2017 [–]

Not that well. The java.base module is still huge. Also, Zulu has nice pre-packaged JDK9 downloads[0] so you don't have to build.

0 - http://zulu.org/zulu-9-pre-release-downloads/

the8472 on Feb 2, 2017 | [–]

I think jlink can strip at the class level, not just the module level.

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