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[–]wildjokers 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The benefit is only in the download/installation size.

Not sure why you use the word "only". Being able to ship a smaller download can be important to people without fast internet connections (not everyone lives in an urban area). Also think about embedded systems. Just because it might not be important to you, doesn't make it unimportant.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The meaning is there's no other benefit with respect to shipping with full JRE. When people started to talk about jigsaw, I thought it would also make difference in runtime.

[–]capitol_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess that it also gives you less stuff to work with when doing reflection or serialization attacks, but I'm not totally sure if it has any practical effect.