What the JVM needs

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Notes from Rich Hickey's workshop

user mode limitations

  • please optimize this
  • fences
  • typestate: now immutable
  • Why Tailcalls: as a guarantee, not just an optimization

numbers

  • fixnums
  • need a uniform entry/exit types (Object => boxing)
  • Hacker's delight overflow detection is OK (only for add/sub); need a static method that throws overflow-exception?

storage management

  • floating garbage foo(o, o=null); is tailcall a solution?

limits

  • 31-bit arrays
  • 16-bit instructions
  • static data structures (array literals)

types

  • structs, value types