Few questions about invokeDynamic

[Rémi Forax]

Le 07/11/2010 18:48, assembling signals a écrit :
> 07.11.10, 14:58, "Rémi Forax"<forax at univ-mlv.fr>:
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>>   Works with javac. Do you use it ?
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> Hm, strange, I thought Netbeans would use the usual javac, but now I guess it uses
> some API calls to compile files. Because using javac from command line works indeed!
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NetBeans embeds its own version of javac.

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>>   In that case, you can generate bytecode at runtime ane becuase you do that
>>   at runtime you know at least the number of parameter.
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> Well, personally I, can't generate bytecode at runtime ;)
> Was I be able to do this, I wouldn't experiment with invokedynamic in first place ;)
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> Can you please comment on invokeVarargs' performance?
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I have run your test, basically invokeVarargs is not inlined
because the method is too big.

John, I wonder if invokeVarargs() with 0 argument should
use invokeGeneric instead of the genericInvoker.
Also it seems that there is no check in the VM that the default target
of a switch can be not taken.

Rémi