Anonymous value classes

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

And `var` ?

(but I agree this feels a niche)

Maurizio

On 03/06/2022 18:59, Brian Goetz wrote:
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> On 6/3/2022 1:39 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
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>>     *From: *"Brian Goetz" <brian.goetz at oracle.com>
>>     *To: *"daniel smith" <daniel.smith at oracle.com>,
>>     "valhalla-spec-experts" <valhalla-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net>
>>     *Sent: *Friday, June 3, 2022 6:21:26 PM
>>     *Subject: *Re: Anonymous value classes
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>>     There is no chance to get any calling-convention optimization
>>     here, since the concrete class name will not show up in any
>>     method descriptor (or preload attribute).  There is no chance to
>>     get any heap flattening here, since the concrete class name will
>>     not show up in any field descriptor or `newarray` operand.
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>> Nope, anonymous classes are anonymous only for Java not in the 
>> bytecode, by example
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> OK, correction: such a vanishingly microscopic chance as to be 
> completely ignorable :)
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