JDK-8161256

[Paul Sandoz]

Hi Peter,

Moving to the Valhalla list, which is probably the closest matching list.

We have given some thought about these additional constant pool tags but nothing concrete has arisen from that with regards to a JEP (and thus targeting the current non-existent JEP to a release would be even further out). As of now there has not been a strong requirement/priority for such tags but there might be in the future if other features can benefit from them. 

I will likely talk about these and other possible enhancements at JVMLS this year.

Paul.


> On Jun 22, 2018, at 6:51 PM, Peter <jini at zeus.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Will a JEP be created for general data in constant pools?
> 
> CONSTANT_Bytes - tag byte 2
> CONSTANT_Group - tag byte 13
> 
> The attraction of allowing general data in constant pools, is that it may stabilise the constant pool, there have been a number of additions to the constant pool since Java 8 and this feature, while adding two more constants, reduces future need or motivation for growing the constant pool.
> 
> It's my understanding that Java 11 will be a long term support release, like Java 8.   Will this be added in Java 12?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter.