for review (XXL): 6655638 method handles for invokedynamic

[John Rose]

On Jan 20, 2009, at 2:53 AM, John Rose wrote:
> This is part of the JVM side of the JSR 292 Reference  
> Implementation.  It should have no effect on application execution,  
> unless one of the new flags is turned on (chiefly -XX: 
> +MethodHandleSupport).

Although it is not JVM code, I have posted FYI a draft of the Java  
code which works on top of the JVM changes here:

http://webrev.invokedynamic.info/jrose/6655638.jdk/ (as a webrev)
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/jdk/file/tip/meth.patch (original  
in the mlvm patch repo)

For convenient browsing and review, javadoc extracted from those Java  
sources is here:

http://webrev.invokedynamic.info/jrose/6655638.meth.jdoc/

This API is not yet official.  Comments would be welcome!

-- John