In order to achieve the cold start gain described in 6278968 and
6278974, it is necessary to make the JDK's core libraries lazier with
respect to their opening of jar files. Currently, the launcher and the
extension loader open jars on sun.boot.class.path and in jre.ext.dirs
for the purpose of finding bootstrap and extension resources and
services. The meta-index functionality in 6278974 can be reused to
describe the contents of these jars so that they can be opened more
lazily.

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