[External] : Re: String concatenation order of operations

[Liam Miller-Cushon]

Thanks Brian, I filed https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8273914 to
keep track of this.

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:01 PM Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

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> It'd be nice to reconcile the implementation with the spec if possible,
> though. I wonder what the performance hit would be from calling toString on
> the arguments more eagerly to preserve the evaluation order.
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> The nature of indy leads to the structure we ended up with.  The natural
> way to do this is to have the various arguments passed as real stack
> arguments, causing them to all be evaluated before being pushed through the
> MH nest (which is where the string conversion happens, using
> MethodHandle::filterArguments.)  We'd essentially have to write a new
> bootstrap (but leave the old one in place), and have the compiler generate
> bytecode to do the string conversion as the values are being pushed on the
> stack.  This requires a different bootstrap and a different calling
> convention.  So old bytecode will stay around, and the old bootstrap would
> have to be kept around ... pretty disruptive.
>
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