Re: JavaOne meet-up?

2010-09-29 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Christian Thalinger christian.thalin...@oracle.com wrote: That sounds good.  Any time-frame when you get to do it?  I'd like to use JRuby again as testing kit for our latest changes. I pushed changes to JRuby yesterday that allow it to compile and run against

Re: JavaOne meet-up?

2010-09-29 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 15:14 -0500, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Christian Thalinger christian.thalin...@oracle.com wrote: That sounds good. Any time-frame when you get to do it? I'd like to use JRuby again as testing kit for our latest changes. I pushed

hg: mlvm/mlvm/hotspot: meth: add an N-ary version of the MethodApply feature

2010-09-29 Thread john . r . rose
Changeset: 022c417e0094 Author:jrose Date: 2010-09-15 01:17 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/hotspot/rev/022c417e0094 meth: add an N-ary version of the MethodApply feature ! meth-bcon-6984311.patch + meth-bcon-nary.patch ! series

MethodHandles for Kawa and other functional languages?

2010-09-29 Thread Per Bothner
I'm interested into (at least) evaluating MethodHandles for Kawa (and similar languages with first-class functions). But I'm not quite sure where to start, or what is the right abstraction. Kawa's function implementation is fairly efficient. Calls to known functions compile to direct method

Re: MethodHandles for Kawa and other functional languages?

2010-09-29 Thread John Rose
On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Per Bothner wrote: Fundamentally, the question is: When the Scheme programmer passes of function to a higher-level function (like map), what is the type of the object passed: A MethodHandle? A Procedure? Something else? There seem to be different kind of