Valhalla EG minutes Feb 14, 2018

[Brian Goetz]

> 3. Planned uses for condy in jdk?
>   - Nothing in imminent plans
>   - expect longer term constant Lambdas to use condy - lightweight
>   - future: still exploring APIs for constants, switch, pattern match, …

Using condy for method references and stateless lambdas could happen relatively soon.  We’ve just finished a round of perf testing and found that the linkage costs are measurably lower.  Probably in the next six months or so.