Project Lambda: Java Language Specification draft

[John Rose]

On Jan 28, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Patrick Wright wrote:

> I'm a
> little worried by the trend in these discussions that because JRockit
> or the HotSpot server compiler can optimize the heck out of things, we
> no longer have to worry about what sort of code gets generated by our
> compilers.

The lambda identity reuse indeterminacy, like the autoboxing reuse indeterminacy, is helpful to all classes of JVMs.  The trick is to know when *not* to specify something that implementors would like to decide for themselves.

-- John