[10!] RFR: 8193471: Startup regression due to JDK-8185582 (original) (raw)

Claes Redestad claes.redestad at oracle.com
Wed Dec 13 20:40:51 UTC 2017

Lambdas and their overheads isn't much of an issue in the grand scheme of things, but forcing the initialization early when not much of the code java.lang.invoke depends on has had a chance to at least warm up somewhat does cause awkward hiccups in startup tests. Thus it makes sense to defer the first initialization somewhat, for now.

I hope we'll continue making these overheads smaller so that we in time can use lambdas (or any new language feature) anywhere without regressing even the most synthetic startup tests.

/Claes

On 2017-12-13 21:17, Martin Buchholz wrote:

fyi Google does some automated desugaring for lambdas using a program named ... desugar.

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