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

[Christian Thalinger]

On Oct 22, 2012, at 11:39 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

> 2012/10/18 12:17 -0700, christian.thalinger at oracle.com:
>> On Oct 18, 2012, at 12:00 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?
>> 
>> It's big, indeed.  But actually it's a bug fix and it only touches JSR
>> 292 related files and functionality.
> 
> So if I don't use invokedynamic at all then none of these changes
> are relevant?

Correct.  Only when you run a program that uses any JSR 292 functionality the 292 subsystem will be brought up and it uses the new implementation.

> 
> How long have these changes been baking in JDK 8, and what level
> of testing has been done on them?

We pushed the main changeset to JDK 8 about 3 months ago.  Since then we fixed problems that showed up during nightly test runs and problems we've found using Nashorn, JRuby, and other language implementations.

-- Chris

> 
> - Mark