RFR 8183146 [MVT] Create composed vwithfield constructor

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Looks good.

I think even this could be expressed with a combinator; you need to walk 
field in reverse and repeatedly call mh = collectArguments(mh, 0, 
withfield). At the end of the process you get some MH whose type is 
QT1T2T3...Tn, where T1, T2, T3 ... Tn are the types of the fields. Now, 
if 'fromDefault' is set, you do another collectArgumemts(mh, 0, 
defaultConstantValue). If it is not set, you just leave the MH as is.

That said, I have little clue as to what it's best for the VM to 
optimize - I suspect the combinator based one generates plenty of LFs 
under the hood, so might be more problematic than a single monolithic 
method?

Maurizio


On 30/06/17 01:42, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review the following:
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>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/valhalla/c-wither/webrev/
>
> This adds a method, named unrefllectWithers for want of a better name, that given a number of fields can produce a method handle that applies vwithfield, in order with each Field. SO it should produce some tight byte code for the production of values, which then can be optimized by the JIT (e.g. if a default value is obtained and all fields are updated then the JIT could optimize away the zeroing associated with vdefault).
>
> This method is quite general, depending on the arguments passed in, it can reduce to an identity function, findWither, or defaultValueConstant, which suggests the latter two could defer to this method.
>
> Rather than accepting an array of Field[] it should perhaps be a LinkedHashMap<String, Class<?>>, or two distinct arrays of the same size, String[] and Class[]. In any case we need a way for the caller to specify the set of fields in a defined order.
>
> Paul.
>
>