State of MLVM and Lambda

[Rémi Forax]

On 07/20/2012 11:25 AM, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Maybe this is a stupid beginner question. I would like to know what is
> the status of MLVM with respect to project Lambda. Is it possible to
> build a JVM that has both (has lambda, or parts of it, already been
> merged into hotspot-comp?)? Is there any overlap between the two, or are
> they largely independent (MLVM mostly hotspot-centric vs. Lambda mostly
> javac centric?)?
>
> Cheers,
> Roman

Hi Roman,
there are two parts in lambda project, you have lambda and default methods,
lambda currently doesn't require runtime support (only javac + JDK)
but default methods are resolved by the VM and as far as I know, the 
default methods part
is not merged into hotspot-comp.

cheers,
Rémi