per-instance inlining hint for MethodHandle

[Garcia Gutierrez Miguel Alfredo]

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It appears that the most effective way to deal with MethodHandle instance (to inline or not to inline) would be for each MH instance to carry a marker emitted by the static compiler, to indicate ForceInlining.

In the case of Scala, such facility would be instrumental to achieving both goals of "lambdas-without-autoboxing", "runtime specialization to primitive types", and straight line code.

And yes, Java would also benefit from that facility, too :)


Miguel
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Miguel Garcia
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
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CH-1015 Lausanne - Switzerland
http://lamp.epfl.ch/~magarcia/