Looking for Sponsor: JDK-8229959 Convert proxy class to use constant dynamic

[Brian Goetz]

For those that are not intimately familiar with the mechanics of proxy 
class generation, it would be great to flesh this out with a code 
example, that shows the proposed old and new translation. This would 
make it easier for folks to evaluate the benefits and costs of the 
approach, and possibly suggest improvements.

On 11/21/2019 10:23 PM, Johannes Kuhn wrote:
>
> * What benefits would such a change have?
> First, it allows us to drop the static final fields and the class 
> initializer for the generated proxy classes.
> Second, it allows the code (both generated and generator) to be more 
> clear by moving the essential parts together.
> Third, it might bring some performance improvement, because the 
> j.l.r.Method lookup is delayed to it's first use - which in some cases 
> might never happen.