Lambda and JSR 292 method handle

[Mark Thornton]

Rémi Forax wrote:
> This model are severals weak points:
> 1) VMs are built to manage lot of instance of few classes, this model 
> creates lot of classes
>      with few instances. So this model doesn't fit very well with 
> current VM implementations.
>   
There was a proposal to update the class file format to better (and more 
compactly) represent nested/inner classes. This might be expected to 
improve the ability of VM's to manage large numbers of such classes.

Mark Thornton