EG meeting, 2023-04-19

[Remi Forax]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "daniel smith" <daniel.smith at oracle.com>
> To: "valhalla-spec-experts" <valhalla-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 5:14:05 PM
> Subject: EG meeting, 2023-04-19

> EG meeting today, April 19, at 4pm UTC (9am PDT, 12pm EDT).
> 
> Not a lot on the agenda, but we'll have a quick check-in. We may want to discuss
> some of Brian's "B3, default values, and implicit initialization" mail.

I would lie to also ask if we need an explicit user available boxing operation for value classes 

By example in,
  https://github.com/JosePaumard/play-with-valhalla-for-devoxx-fr/blob/master/src/main/java/org/paumard/amber/model2/D_specialized_default_value/CitiesNameSwitchMinArrays.java

which calculate a mininum (lexicographically) between the names of several non-null value classes with default instance.

Doing the boxing when the value is read from the array is more efficient that doing the boxing each time the names are compared.

Rémi