Adding asm to JDK 8

[Phil Race]

Oh, its for lambda! Thank you for mentioning that. I had no clue what we
needed this thing for :-), may be it was obvious to the rest of the world
but not to me and I was surprised it wasn't mentioned in Jim's email.

But does it really need its own new repo ?  I think there needs to be a 
discussion on this
as  I'd like to see *fewer* of them. How enormous is this thing ?

Can't be that big if there's a copy buried in jax-ws

-phil.

On 2/3/2012 3:46 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 04:04, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> Great.  That would give a good starting point.
>>
>> Mandy
>>
>> On 2/2/2012 7:34 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>>> The main ASM distribution is broken into 5 jars, based on how people 
>>> tend to use it; this is probably a good starting candidate for 
>>> module boundaries.
> Brian - I also think we'll need a brief overview on usage too. In 
> particular, is the plan to run ASM at runtime and is this the plan for 
> the long term too or will it be replaced by something in the core to 
> generate the classes as runtime? (I'm been too busy to track many of 
> the details of lambda).
>
> -Alan