Slides from JAX 2012 invokedynamic keynote

2012-04-20 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
I thought this might be interesting to some folks on these lists, and I am also interested in input on ways to improve this talk. I think it will make a good "intro to invokedynamic" talk for other confs, so I'll probably do it again. I'm also *finally* going to do an epic blog post summarizing al

Re: Clever uses of InvokeDynamic

2012-04-20 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
That reminds me...I should hook up the (little used) globals in JRuby to indy. Thanks! - Charlie On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy) wrote: > Really it's similar to lazy constants, but we use invokeDynamic for > global variable access which we have a lot of since our

RE: Clever uses of InvokeDynamic

2012-04-20 Thread MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy)
Really it's similar to lazy constants, but we use invokeDynamic for global variable access which we have a lot of since our language is exemplar based we have a lot of globals that hold those exemplars. The name of the global is passed as an argument to the bootstrap and this returns a constant cal