notes from Valhalla meeting 5/24/17

[John Rose]

On Jun 9, 2017, at 1:51 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> We have talked about "condy" (a constant-pool friend for indy).
> Enclosed is the javadoc portion of a draft spec.
> The JVM spec. is not ready and will be sent separately.
> This javadoc reflects code checked into the condy branch of Amber.

I have updated the javadoc portion of the spec for constant-dynamic.
There are small but strategic changes to MethodType and MethodHandle,
as well as new classes to represent the "pull mode" of constant resolution.
The key changes relevant to the JVM are in package-info.html,
and (of course) in the forthcoming JVM spec. changes.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/jvm/specdiff-condy-2017-0619.zip

(I've given up sending attachments for now since the server
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— John