EG meeting, 2022-01-12

[Dan Smith]

EG Zoom meeting today at 5pm UTC (9am PDT, 12pm EDT).

We've had a flurry of activity in the last month. The list is below; probably best for those involved to decide whether they feel like the topic is settled, or deserves further discussion.

"JEP update: Primitive Classes": revisions to JEP 401 to complement the new Value Objects JEP

"Enhancing java.lang.constant for Valhalla": discussing whether/how the Preload attribute is manifested in this API

"We have to talk about 'primitive'": terminology discussion regarding the word "primitive"

"JEP update: Value Objects": followup discussion about inference/checking/usage of the IdentityObject & ValueObject interfaces

"Updated State of Valhalla documents": revisions to the big-picture-oriented State of Valhalla documents to reflect recent design changes

"Why do we need .ref class for primitive class?": clearing up how '.ref' types are encoded in bytecode

"L-type, Q-type and class mirrors": discussing how '.ref' types are modeled by reflection

"VM model and aconst_init": discussion how 'aconst_init' interacts with 'null' and verification types