Status of Anno Class loader with constant patches?

Helmut Eller eller.helmut at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 01:12:38 PST 2011


* John Rose [2011-01-06 02:37] writes:

> "Live constants" are definitely one of the use cases that
> invokedynamic is designed for.

Are/will there be any means to link invokedynamic call sites eagerly
instead of the lazy linking scheme?  

E.g. in Lisp there is this form

  (load-time-value <exp> t) 

that is essentially a constant but <exp> must be evaluated at load time
and not later (as would be done with lazy linking).

Helmut



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