It should be noted that the compressed value is inside a jmod JAR so it doesn't usually need to get decompressed before use I wouldn't think (granted java.exe i

It should be noted that the compressed value is inside a jmod JAR so it doesn't usually need to get decompressed before use I wouldn't think (granted java.exe is buried in there last I checked). Over half of that (21 MB uncompressed) is class files indeed, and those could be trimmed. Another ~40% is native libs (at least on Windows) and surely some of that could be trimmed if unused, granted in Windows the largest is the MSVC runtime. I would expect projects to crop up (I might make one myself) that subdivide java.base even further.