lambda support for Graal

[Christian Thalinger]

On Apr 3, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Doug Simon @ Oracle <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:15 PM, "Venkatachalam, Vasanth" <Vasanth.Venkatachalam at amd.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Can someone explain what the plans for adding support to compile JDK8 lambda expressions?
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> We have no current plans for adding this support. As far as I am aware, we have not yet looked into what compiler support is needed for lambda expressions. Is it only a matter of supporting invokedynamic and MethodHandles?

I'm going to work on this.  Next week I have a call with Thomas to figure out what is required.

-- Chris

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>> We'll need this functionality soon for the work we're doing, namely generating HSAIL for parallelizable Java code marked with lambdas.
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> How does this marking show up in the class file/bytecode? It may be possible to do some kind of pattern matching.
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> -Doug