hg: valhalla/valhalla/jdk: Initial implementation of metacircular interpreter

[Rémi Forax]

Here is the prototypr i was talking about
https://github.com/forax/hello-specializ

seems to work well :)
Rémi 


Le 23 août 2015 13:57:12 CEST, "Rémi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr> a écrit :
>Hi Peter,
>my guess, let say you want to prototype the u-opcodes of John's talk at
>JVMLS.
>What would you do ?
>
>Btw, there is a complementary approach which is to use the existing
>bytecode interpreter and encode for every u-opcode a cascade of if/else
>on the type, the bytecode verifier will bark but you can deactivate it
>(the JIT may also crash if it is too curious a look the code of never
>executed branches).
>
>Rémi 
>
>
>Le 23 août 2015 11:14:10 CEST, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com> a
>écrit :
>>Hi,
>>
>>Very interesting. Are you prepared to give some hint as to what role
>>the 
>>metacircular interpreter will play in the valhalla project or is it 
>>still a secret ?
>>
>>Regards, Peter
>>
>>On 08/21/2015 11:23 PM, brian.goetz at oracle.com wrote:
>>> Changeset: f0a19269be37
>>> Author:    briangoetz
>>> Date:      2015-08-21 17:23 -0400
>>> URL:      
>>http://hg.openjdk.java.net/valhalla/valhalla/jdk/rev/f0a19269be37
>>>
>>> Initial implementation of metacircular interpreter
>>>
>>> + interpreter/src/valhalla/interpreter/Frame.java
>>> + interpreter/src/valhalla/interpreter/Interpreter.java
>>> + interpreter/src/valhalla/interpreter/InterpreterError.java
>>> + interpreter/src/valhalla/interpreter/OpcodeHandler.java
>>> + interpreter/test/valhalla/interpreter/FrameTest.java
>>> + interpreter/test/valhalla/interpreter/InterpreterTest.java
>>> ! src/java.base/share/classes/java/anyutil/Spliterator.java
>>> ! src/java.base/share/classes/java/anyutil/stream/IntStream.java
>>> ! src/java.base/share/classes/java/anyutil/stream/Streams.java
>>>