Re: What can we improve in JSR292 for Java 9?

2015-03-09 Thread George Marrows
Thanks Peter - I'd like that too. Another benefit is that it would (presumably) force IDEs to support the syntax so that you could this reference to, in your example, someMethod(). We had a problem in our large-ish codebase with methods that looked unused to the IDE (and hence the casual reader),

Re: MemberName$Factory.resolve() and the Eclipse debugger.

2014-11-18 Thread George Marrows
Does anyone here know the best way to engage with the Eclipse developers on this kind of thing? We will try their mailing list ( http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jdt-debug-dev/), but it's eerily quiet George On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:29 PM, MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy Management) < dunca

Re: JVM Language Summit (Europe)?

2013-10-04 Thread George Marrows
e'd be interested in coming to one in Europe, particularly if it preceded/followed another European conf he would like to attend. Please let me know how plans progress and if there's anything I can do to help. Yours, George George Marrows General Electric Cambridge, UK On Wed, O

Re: Interpreting Mission Control numbers for indy

2013-09-19 Thread George Marrows
Christian -- Duncan Macgregor and I have a large desktop application that makes very heavy use of indy. As Duncan reported recently, we're also seeing increased memory usage and (probably) decreased performance under u40. Will contact you privately with details of how we can get you access. -- G

Update 12 build 3 - performance report & question

2013-04-10 Thread George Marrows
[resend after getting stuck in moderation first time] I was just checking out update 12 b3 with our Magik implementation on 64 bit Windows. Does b3 contain the backport of the Java 8 invokedynamic impl that I believe was planned? I can't quite tell from the jdk7u-dev list. Anyway, something has