Discussions around Java’s jlink tool typically center around savings in terms of (disk) space. Instead of shipping an entire JDK, a custom runtime image created with jlink contains only those JDK modules which an application actually requires, resulting in smaller distributables and container images. But the contribution of jlink — as a part of the Java module system at large — to the development of Java application’s is bigger than that: with the notion of link time it define...
