- Offlist John, is there a link for more info on "true polymorphism"?
Thanks sent from my phone On Oct 31, 2015 3:51 PM, "John Rose" <john.r.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > On Oct 31, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Remi Forax <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote: > > > I think most of the runtime language developers, myself included will kill > to have this feature included into the JDK. > There are several features of dynamic languages that are currently hard to > implement like type specialization, stack reification, as you said fibers, > and more generally de-optimization that will be far easier to implement > with that capability (currently only Nashorn can afford to implement some > of these optimizations). > > > Oh, yes, we've been thinking about it, eagerly, even though other things > (modules, true polymorphism, value types, native interconnect) keep pushing > to the top of the list. > > Most recently, at the JavaOne "Ask the Architects", we were asked "what > big-ticket item would you add to Java that is not already on the map?" > Mark immediately said, "coroutines". > > — John > > P.S. ...Which relieved me of the duty to say "coroutines", allowing me to > talk about a group of overlapping DSL-like features like object > construction expressions, complex constants, builders and complex array > selection expressions. Those things all fit together, you know. > > > _______________________________________________ > mlvm-dev mailing list > mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev > >
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