8141132: JEP 254: Compact Strings Summary: Adopt a more space-efficient internal representation for strings. Reviewed-by: alanb, bdelsart, coleenp, iklam, jiangli, jrose, kevinw, naoto, pliden, roland, smarks, twisti Contributed-by: Brent Christian <brent.christian@oracle.com>, Vivek Deshpande <vivek.r.deshpande@intel.com>, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>, Charlie Hunt <charlie.hunt@oracle.com>, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com>, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs@oracle.com>, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen@oracle.com>, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>, Sandhya Viswanathan <sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com>

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Building the entire Open JDK source code

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This project exists solely for building the entire Open JDK source code,

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i.e. both the Hotspot VM and the JDK.

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Building this project takes considerable time and disk space.  Expect several

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hours and over 3GB.  Given that it takes a long time to build all of this

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project code, you might prefer to build it from the command line using ant.

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Please note: the results of building this project are *not* put in the place

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used by other projects.  In this case, the results are place in

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    <install-dir>/build/<platform>-<arch>

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and

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    <install-dir>/build/<platform>-<arch>-fastdebug