Collapsing the requirements

[Remi Forax]

> De: "Brian Goetz" <brian.goetz at oracle.com>
> À: "Frederic Parain" <frederic.parain at oracle.com>
> Cc: "valhalla-spec-experts" <valhalla-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mardi 6 Août 2019 18:50:26
> Objet: Re: Collapsing the requirements

>> So, legal signatures will be:
>> - QV;
>> - LI;
>> and that’s it, right?

>> Q will continue to have its current semantic (flattenable, non-nullable,
>> triggers pre/eager-loading).
>> L will continue to have its legacy semantic (indirection, nullable, no new
>> loading rules)

> Correct. Nice and simple!

I believe 'Q' should be only mean preload and the fact that the class has a inline bit should imply flattenable and non-nullable. 
Yes, we consume one of these precious bit but at the same time, we nicely decouple the meaning of the descriptor from the meaning of the class itself. 

Rémi 
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