Re: 6804523: Tuple Signatures

2011-05-22 Thread Michael Barker
Cheers for the vote of confidence! I've just won a small skirmish with the verifier and I seem to have anonymous tuples on method calls working. Just putting some more tests together before I send in a patch. Mike. On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > Very cool! I am

Re: 6804523: Tuple Signatures

2011-05-15 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Very cool! I am glad someone with the requisite skills has begun looking into John's tuples post! I am not an expert on Hotspot internals, so I am afraid I can't respond to your query. But we (JRuby and other dynlangs) most definitely have a need for tuples in representing complex numeric boxes

6804523: Tuple Signatures

2011-05-15 Thread Michael Barker
Hi, I've been following the MLVM list for a while now and I would like to get involved. I'm interested in tuple signatures (http://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/tuples_in_the_vm). I'm fairly new to the hotspot code base, so you may have to forgive my lack of knowledge. I've spent a couple of week