the End of History in the constant pool

[John Rose]

On May 18, 2017, at 6:55 PM, Mark Roos <mroos at roos.com> wrote:
> 
> Does this allow the use of a byteArray as one or more of the bootstrap constants? 
> 
> I seem to recall that was something I wished for when I did a similar effort with 
> constant call sites. 

Yes, it does.  The byte array would be its own condy node, which could then
be used as a BSM argument.  This is why condy is more than just a slightly
better way to do indy-of-no-arguments.

Also, by tweaking MH.invokeWithArguments to support thousands of arguments,
the set of possible BSM argument lists is much more interesting (limited to 64k
at present, until we get Groups).

— John