for review (M): 6812831 factor megamorphic invokeinterface (for 6655638)

[John Rose]

On Mar 6, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Tobias Ivarsson wrote:

> As I said it's work in progress, not much testing done, but it does  
> compile. There are a also a few comments that are only my personal  
> todo-notes, most of these are tagged with "THOBE" (makes them easy  
> for me to grep for).

That's fine; the mlvm repo is designed for works-in-progress.  I'll  
post it there.

> I heard some rumors that you would be at the VM summit before PyCon.  
> If so I'll meet you there.

Yes, I'll be there for the VM summit Wednesday and through Saturday  
lunch.

> Don't know if you noticed (I'm just assuming that everybody at Sun  
> gets to know these things) but I got a BOF accepted for JavaOne on  
> the topic of language interoperability, my plan was to discuss  
> interface injection as part of that.

Nice!  I have a session on JVM futures and another for a deep-dive on  
JSR 292 techniques.

> I hope that a few of you (people reading this list) will be there.  
> I'm also doing a session on how good different dynamic languages are  
> at expressing concurrent programs.

Very good.  Systems with managed code, if they have good APIs for self- 
management, can express really interesting optimizations in that space  
and others.  (I mean JVMs, of course.)  I feel a blog post coming on....

-- John