Spread problem with > 10 arguments

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Appears to be working now...thanks again!

I'm closing in on a "final" version of all this which I can blog
about. I'm hopeful that the GC issues and compiler will be ready for
basic operation soon, so I can show some "happy ending" perf numbers.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Charles Oliver
Nutter<headius at headius.com> wrote:
> I'll give it a try in a bit.
>
> I suspect that method handles will need to know about large numbers of
> arguments, since you often need to pass in the same large signature to
> a given adapter for all its component handles to receive them. For
> example, guardWithTest; the test and fast path may not need all
> arguments, and test may need different/additional ones, but the
> arguments passed to them must be the same long list. Add to that a
> language like Clojure, which has unboxed paths for up to 20
> arguments...
>
> Thanks for the find and fix :)
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:36 PM, John Rose<John.Rose at sun.com> wrote:
>> Good guess, Remi; thanks.  I just pushed a fix.  -- John
>>
>> On Jul 4, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>>
>>> The code is different if there is less than 10 argument of more :
>>> If this the first line of the else is wrong,
>>> it should be :
>>> MethodType gtype = MethodType.makeGeneric(0, true);
>>>
>>> It's just a guess, sorry,
>>> I've currently no time to compile because I am not at home and just in
>>> front of a browser.
>>
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