hg: mlvm/mlvm/langtools: meth: support transitional and native forms of invokedynamic in javac and javap

[Rémi Forax]

John Rose a écrit :
> On Oct 9, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>
>> With this encoding, you have a receiveless 5-byte opcode.
>>
>
> Good point.  But, someone is sure to complain that the normal uses of 
> the opcode do not allow null.  Then we get around to those other 
> designs we talked about at the Summit, where the metaobject is passed 
> as the receiver.  This is clever, but it optimizes the slow path 
> instead of the fast path, so I don't think that's what we want.
not if we mandate ACONST_NULL, in that case, it can be removed from  the 
fast path.
>
> -- John
Rémi