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

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2012/10/22 12:06 -0700, christian.thalinger at oracle.com:
> On Oct 22, 2012, at 11:39 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> 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.

Thanks for the info.  These changes are quite large, but in terms of risk
it sounds like they're under control.

- Mark