JDK-8161256 (original) (raw)

Peter jini at zeus.net.au
Sat Jun 23 01:51:08 UTC 2018


Will a JEP be created for general data in constant pools?

CONSTANT_Bytes - tag byte 2 CONSTANT_Group - tag byte 13

The attraction of allowing general data in constant pools, is that it may stabilise the constant pool, there have been a number of additions to the constant pool since Java 8 and this feature, while adding two more constants, reduces future need or motivation for growing the constant pool.

It's my understanding that Java 11 will be a long term support release, like Java 8. Will this be added in Java 12?

Thanks,

Peter.



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