a paper on invokedynamic

[Musachy Barroso]

small typo in the first page "There is no multiple dispatch [Musch08]
ni the JVM" (unless you are one of "the knights who say ni" :) )

musachy

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM, John Rose <John.Rose at sun.com> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have written a paper for VMIL '09 on invokedynamic, which you may
> find interesting:
>   Bytecodes meet Combinators: invokedynamic on the JVM
>   John Rose, VMIL '09 Workshop at OOPSLA, Orlando, October 2009
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/200910-VMIL.pdf
>
> The focus of the paper is on evaluating the architectural effect of
> adding invokedynamic to JVM bytecodes.  The description of JSR 292 is
> partial and provisional but I expect the part I have described is
> mostly stable.  There is a lot of overview of (a) current
> implementation techniques for JVM languages, (b) how these techniques
> adapt to invokedynamic, and (c) how a JVM might optimize
> invokedynamic.  The treatment mentions HotSpot in a few places, but is
> not specific (not intentionally so, at least) to HotSpot.  I hope it
> is useful to other JVM teams and to dynamic language implementors.
>
> Best wishes,
> -- John
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