Re: the End of History in the constant pool

2017-05-18 Thread John Rose
On May 18, 2017, at 6:55 PM, Mark Roos wrote: > > Does this allow the use of a byteArray as one or more of the bootstrap > constants? > > I seem to recall that was something I wished for when I did a similar effort > with > constant call sites. Yes, it does. The byte

Re: the End of History in the constant pool

2017-05-18 Thread Mark Roos
Hi John, Does this allow the use of a byteArray as one or more of the bootstrap constants? I seem to recall that was something I wished for when I did a similar effort with constant call sites. mark ___ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net

Re: the End of History in the constant pool

2017-05-18 Thread John Rose
On May 18, 2017, at 2:13 PM, fo...@univ-mlv.fr wrote: > > uses invokeinterface then the spec was rebooted, the second version has it's > own bytecode 186, There was another in between that used invokeinterface and reified a CallSite with patchable state. I did a really nasty design for this

Re: the End of History in the constant pool

2017-05-18 Thread Krystal Mok
Hi John, Thanks for moving the conversation to mlvm-dev! The condy stuff is finally coming, yay! Just out of curiousity, since we're on this topic, may I ask about what constant tags 13 and 14 used to mean? All I could find was that 13 was used in JavaCard VM (JCVM) as CONSTANT_Package. But what

Re: the End of History in the constant pool

2017-05-18 Thread John Rose
On May 18, 2017, at 12:55 PM, John Rose wrote: > > I'll post some info about that in a moment. Here's what we are thinking about doing with condy in the short term. Comments are welcome. This work is landing in branches of the Amber project. — John Just as the

the End of History in the constant pool

2017-05-18 Thread John Rose
(I'm moving an amber-dev conversation about condy to mlvm-dev.) We are working on a condy JEP and spec. as well as a prototype, which is good progress. I'll post some info about that in a moment. On May 18, 2017, at 12:16 PM, Remi Forax wrote: > > I would prefer 17 to 21,