That reminds me...I should hook up the (little used) globals in JRuby to indy.
Thanks! - Charlie On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy) <duncan.macgre...@ge.com> wrote: > Really it's similar to lazy constants, but we use invokeDynamic for > global variable access which we have a lot of since our language is > exemplar based we have a lot of globals that hold those exemplars. The > name of the global is passed as an argument to the bootstrap and this > returns a constant call site that gets or sets the value in a bound > storage cell. > > -----Original Message----- > From: mlvm-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net > [mailto:mlvm-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Charles Oliver > Nutter > Sent: 17 April 2012 18:30 > To: Da Vinci Machine Project; JVM Languages > Subject: Clever uses of InvokeDynamic > > I'm filling out the remaining slides in my JAX keynote on InvokeDynamic, > and I'm interested in additional "clever" uses of invokedynamic folks > have discovered. > > I have included the following, which we make use of in JRuby: > > * Dynamic invocation (obviously) > * Lazy constants > * Multiple dispatch > > I'll also make a brief mention of MethodHandle as a replacement for > java.lang.reflect stuff. > > Other good ones for a room full of people learning invokedynamic for the > first time? > > - Charlie > _______________________________________________ > mlvm-dev mailing list > mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev > _______________________________________________ > mlvm-dev mailing list > mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
