I was thinking about a generic pic, easy to use but flexible and came up with the following concept api. By passing the callsite and the testValue around with allowing an optional pic update I can envision this as a nice building block for several caching strategies. Of course this is all based on my use model which does not use primitives. In summary it reduces the calling of the test method to only once and it supports the quick testing of a few targets. Its also easy to understand how to use without using Charlies or Remis builders.
to generate a PIC MethodHandle createPic(Callsite site, MethodHandle getTestValue, MethodHandle fallback) The getTestValue methodHandle returns the object used in the comparison process Object getTestValue(Callsite site, Object... stackArgs) The fallback returns a testValue and MH to use Object[] fallback(Callsite site, Object testValue, Object... stackArgs) where the return value is [Object newTestValue][MethodHandle newMH] // use case for Tuple if(newTestValue != null) lookup.insert(newTest, newMH) newMh.invoke() This path should also be considered fast as the first step of a fallback could be to check a cache of MH. the lookup process could be a simple chain of compare/branch operations. And the mh replacement could be a simple circular update. This chain could be limited to less than 5. regards mark
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