[GROOVY-5448] make indy use switchpoints for constant meta class changes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-3
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-rc-1
• Component/s: bytecode, class generator, Compiler
• Labels: indy invokedynamic
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Jochen Theodorou
• Created: 14/May/12 09:17
• Updated: 15/Jun/12 22:56
• Resolved: 14/May/12 09:18

Description

MethodHandles provide a simple and efficient test guard using SwitchPoint. It allows to invalidate many handles from a central point without having to actually check that guard on each invocation. This way method calls can be faster, than with an explicit check.