Boxing, still a limit of invokedynamic?

[Mark Roos]

Hi Jochen;

I also spent some time being concerned about the integer performance but 
then decided
that this concern is probably premature based on the current state of 
indy.  One big unknown
to me is whether EA would ever recognize my holder for the prim int or if 
it would only recognize
java Integer when it looks at boxing.  There is also the possibility of 
fixnums support ( prims in
pointers) that may or may not be useful in my design.

So I decided that all my ints will be boxed (references), added a cache 
and some special prim 
methods for now and then follow Charles approach of a good indy design to 
take advantage 
of the optimization efforts.  Based on my large scale benchmarks this is 
ok so I am focusing 
on other places to optimize.  This also supports my automatic conversion 
to/from BigInts.

Log term I am guessing that I will follow your path of special paths with 
guards,  Unless I can
get the performance I want with more cores.


regards
mark 






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