On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:45 AM, John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Patrick Wright wrote: > >> Is the EG considering Anonymous classes for JSR 292? > > No, sorry. Should we be... what's the use case? -- John
I'm not a language implementor (maybe someday...), but following these discussions I thought a pain point of languages like JRuby is that many small classes need to be created, often on-the-fly, and these get parked in the perm gen, which ends up being a constraining resource. I thought the point of AC was to avoid current JDK classloader semantics which prevent these "transient" helper classes from being GC'd. From what I read on this mailing list, Charles Nutter for example was quite excited to have them. I may have misunderstood the point of ACs, however. Regards Patrick _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
