Hi all, I have a general strategy question about using invoke dynamic. Say I have a dynamic language that has null safe property chaining where "a.b.c.d" results in null if a null is encountered anywhere in the chain. I could implement this two ways, 1) generate byte code that checks for nulls or 2) use a guarded method handle at each step that takes care of the nulls. Either option is ok with me, but I'd rather not write both versions to and then try to figure out which one will make the JVM angry.
As a broader question, there are lots of places where I can make this type of decision (e.g., pass by value parameters, copy on assignment value classes), is there a rule of thumb for going with traditional byte code over branching method handles? Thanks, -dain _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
