minimal value types proposal
John Rose
john.r.rose at oracle.com
Thu Sep 1 06:47:24 UTC 2016
P.S. A couple of paragraphs were sent broken. Here are the fixes.
On Aug 31, 2016, at 5:14 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> The fields are wrapped in a primitive value struct with no
> methods. That struct can be be referred to by Q-types
> (including bytecode descriptors but not class owners),
> method handles, and vload/vstore/vreturn. The MH
> runtime can spin
…can spin whatever standard factories, getters, and withers
are needed, in response to Lookup requests.
> The POJO carries all the payload except the layout of
> its data fields. XXXX
Thus, normal content, like inner classes, methods,
interface bindings, and annotations, is all in an
envelope of a standard format, the POJO.
The POJO may also carry snippets of code, in
the form of private static methods, which are
intended *only* for the Q-type.
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