First draft of translation document

[Brian Goetz]

This is quite common when activities evolve in parallel -- one must make 
assumptions (or wishful thinking) about the future course of other coincident 
activities.

As to the specific issue of LDC support for method handle literals, John Rose 
mentioned it on his blog some time ago [1,2] and provided an implementation to 
the OpenJDK MLVM project in March 2010.  The 292 EG still has yet to hash out 
the details; in the event this is not ultimately surfaced in 292 we will then 
have to construct an alternate strategy.

[1] http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/view_from_the_summit
[2] http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/anatomy_of_a_call_site

On 5/17/2010 3:53 PM, Neal Gafter wrote:
> Brian-
>
> The latest "official" jsr292 draft (May 2008) doesn't contain any
> special treatment for the ldc instruction.  I suspect there are other
> jsr292 features referenced here not in that draft.  Where should I
> find a draft of jsr292 that corresponds to the assumptions in this
> document?
>
> Cheers,
> Neal
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Brian Goetz<brian.goetz at oracle.com>  wrote:
>> We've posted a document describing a (somewhat naive) translation strategy for
>> translation of lambda expressions by javac here:
>>
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/lambda_trans.pdf
>>
>>
>>