lambda support for Graal

[Christian Thalinger]

On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Andreas Woess <awx at gmx.at> wrote:

> Not much really. I've done some experimental hacking on that a while ago
> (and can provide you with a patch as a starting point). The main task is
> probably implementing the MH intrinsics in Graal, so that the methods
> are inlined.

Please.  A patch would be great.

-- Chris

> 
> - andreas
> 
> On 2013-04-04 02:00, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Doug Simon @ Oracle <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:15 PM, "Venkatachalam, Vasanth" <Vasanth.Venkatachalam at amd.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Can someone explain what the plans for adding support to compile JDK8 lambda expressions?
>>> 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
>> 
>>>> We'll need this functionality soon for the work we're doing, namely generating HSAIL for parallelizable Java code marked with lambdas.
>>> How does this marking show up in the class file/bytecode? It may be possible to do some kind of pattern matching.
>>> 
>>> -Doug
>