How high are he memory costs of polymorphic inline caches?

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On 2014-08-19 12:12, Julien Ponge wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> Apart from Nashorn, JRuby and Groovy, are there other *widely* used
>> dynamic language implementations known to run on the JVM and using indy
>> and PICs?
>
> Golo [1] is using invokedynamic all the way, and we have PICs for method
> dispatches. We use a GWT tree up to a depth of 5, then degrade to a
> WeakHashMap + invoker when a call site gets megamorphic.
>
> I can't really comment on memory to be honest as we focus primarily on
> raw performance. LambdaForm tend to pile up, which I don't expect to be
> worse than what you would get with an elaborated bytecode JIT-ing
> runtime (Nashorn, JRuby). In my experience LambdaForm are more of an
> annoyance in stack traces :-)
>
> [1] http://golo-lang.org/
>

Thanks Julien for your answer.

With Charles', Mark's and Jochen's answers, I'm now getting a better 
overall picture.