Bug 436487

This is Rawhide rpmlint:

$ rpm -q rpmlint
rpmlint-0.82-3.fc9

I'm pretty ambivalent about this warning, but before doing anything about it I'd
like to hear why do you think the warning is invalid and why is it desirable to
ship those jars uncompressed.  Java startup speed (any numbers available)?  Do
you think all jars should be shipped uncompressed, or shouldn't we care at all
whether they're compressed or not?  What about other zip files?

(By "all jars" I meant all jars in any package, not only in *icedtea.)

Yes, these jars are shipped uncompressed to minimize load time.  I timed "Hello,
World" running 1000 times on my unloaded x86 machine:

#!/bin/sh

for i in `seq 1 1000`
do
  /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/java Hello >& /dev/null
done

Compressed rt.jar:

real    3m28.033s
user    2m20.669s
sys     0m36.194s

Uncompressed rt.jar:

real    3m1.971s
user    1m51.603s
sys     0m36.362s

jar files generally contain code.  Whereas applet jar files should be compressed
to minimize download time, jar files shipped in rpms should be optimized to
minimize load time [1].  For these reasons I don't think the uncompressed
warning should apply to jars.

Given that zip files are compressed by default it's unlikely that a zip file
will be shipped uncompressed accidentally, so perhaps the warning shouldn't
apply to zip files either.

1. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jar/

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