[7u12] Request for approval for CR 8000999: backport of JSR 292 to 7u

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:00 PM,  <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:
> Um, isn't this an awfully big change for what's supposed to be a low-risk
> update release?

Weighing in from a user perspective:

invokedynamic is *broken* in all the current OpenJDK 7 builds...to the
point that JRuby disables indy use on Java 7 right now. It's a large
change to fix it, but since it's not usable right now even a broken
impl would be a lateral move.

That said, I've been working with Christian to make sure the new impl
is solid running JRuby tests (heavy invokedynamic use), and after
working through a few issues it's 100% passing our use cases. It's
definitely more stable than in the 7 builds.

- Charlie