what's John doing?

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

John Rose wrote:
> Last Saturday around midnight the first method handle invocation went  
> through.  It was a virtual call, equivalent to:
>    Object x = "foo";
>    foo.toString();
> 
> See MethodHandleBytecodeTest.testToString in the push I just did:
>    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/hotspot/
> 
> Next up, adapter method handles.

Very nice. I saw the commit come in and tweeted it. I'm going to try to 
get my MLVM builds back up and going again. At what point do you think 
it would be worth trying to do an experimental test with e.g. JRuby, 
wiring it in where reflection was being used previously?

- Charlie