[jsr-292-eg] updated RI code and API javadoc

[Rémi Forax]

Le 16/09/2009 02:56, John Rose a écrit :
> (Getting a round of EG work in before the Summit, so we'll have more 
> to talk about. :-)

[...]

>> Regarding the LDC proposal, it came to my attention that JSR 294 
>> (Modularity) is planning to add new ConstantPool types as well. This 
>> makes me very opposed to the idea of trying to overload the existing 
>> CONSTANT_* rather than adding CONSTANT_MethodHandleref_info and 
>> CONSTANT_MethodTyperef_info.
>>
> That seems right.  Let's talk about this at the Summit.  The advantage 
> of using constants rather than reflective factory methods is the 
> ability of tools (or the JVM) to see ahead of time how the app. is 
> going to link itself.  There may also be compactness benefits.

Knowing the method handle before runtime will allow, by example, to avoid
the method type check in case of MethodHandle.invoke().

Rémi

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