Re: JVMLS indy support group provisional agenda

2016-08-01 Thread John Rose
Thanks, to those who were present, for a very lively conversation! Here are the slides as presented today: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/201608-IndySupportGroup.pdf I would like to add notes to the end of the deck, to summarize what we actually discussed. I could use some help with

Re: JVMLS indy support group provisional agenda

2016-08-01 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
And let's not forget: - coroutine - tail call How do they relate to "Indy Support Group" (as recorded in JVMLS agenda)? :-) - a lightweight way to create a method/method handle from an array of bytes (codes) and an array of objects (constants as in constant pool). Good point! Best

Re: JVMLS indy support group provisional agenda

2016-08-01 Thread Remi Forax
And let's not forget: - coroutine - tail call - a lightweight way to create a method/method handle from an array of bytes (codes) and an array of objects (constants as in constant pool). Remi On July 31, 2016 10:34:51 PM PDT, Vladimir Ivanov wrote: >Thanks a

Re: JVMLS indy support group provisional agenda

2016-08-01 Thread Remi Forax
This one may be a little controversial but there are several good arguments in its favor: VarHandle should be able to modify final fields. Remi On July 31, 2016 10:43:14 PM PDT, John Rose wrote: >Thanks, I added those points. > >On Jul 31, 2016, at 10:34 PM, Vladimir

Re: JVMLS indy support group provisional agenda

2016-07-31 Thread John Rose
Thanks, I added those points. On Jul 31, 2016, at 10:34 PM, Vladimir Ivanov wrote: > > Thanks a lot for preparing the agenda, John! > > I'd like to nominate a topic into API section: enable super constructor > lookups in j.l.i. > > FTR it was discussed on the

Re: JVMLS indy support group provisional agenda

2016-07-31 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
Thanks a lot for preparing the agenda, John! I'd like to nominate a topic into API section: enable super constructor lookups in j.l.i. FTR it was discussed on the list before [1]. Also, Charlie Nutter asked (at JFokus 2015?) for lightweight safepointing solution, but there was no progress