2012/10/22 12:06 -0700, christian.thalin...@oracle.com: > On Oct 22, 2012, at 11:39 AM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: >> So if I don't use invokedynamic at all then none of these changes >> are relevant? > > Correct. Only when you run a program that uses any JSR 292 > functionality the 292 subsystem will be brought up and it uses the new > implementation. > >> How long have these changes been baking in JDK 8, and what level >> of testing has been done on them? > > We pushed the main changeset to JDK 8 about 3 months ago. Since then > we fixed problems that showed up during nightly test runs and problems > we've found using Nashorn, JRuby, and other language implementations.
Thanks for the info. These changes are quite large, but in terms of risk it sounds like they're under control. - Mark
