On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Tal Liron <tal.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I just want to reassure y'all that I am working on this. It took a while to > create a test environment: one of the challenges of using invokedynamic is > that the Java language does not support it; so the best way to test right > now is with ASM 4.0, which is still not officially released. Documentation > on the opcode is also somewhat scattered, and mostly out of date, since > JSR-292 has changed quite a bit until the final release. The JRuby folk are > definitely at the cutting edge of this right (well, after all, JRuby's John > Rose is the key mover and architect behind the JSR), and I'm trying to learn > from their implementation. Right now I'm working on a code tree outside the > main Clojure source, and once that seems to work, I will try to merge it > into a branch. > > So, it's not *quite* as easy as I hoped, but I still think it will be much > easier to use invokedynamic in Clojure than in JRuby. > > I'll keep the mailing list updated on my (slow) progress, and will > definitely make the code public once it becomes ... presentable.
Just out of curiosity, what will this actually enable? Optimizations? What can we expect might perform faster -- calling closures? Functional function-calls such as map, reduce, etc.? Multimethods, protocols, and things like that? -- Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more civilized age. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
