Generic Specialization
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Covers Project Valhalla’s work on adding value types and specialized generics to Java, focusing on compiler and JVM-level design decisions. Describes progress made and implementation challenges encountered when integrating these features into the Java language and VM.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Generic class specialization Our first attempt
- 0:59Specialization example
- 3:40Specialization metadata
- 7:56Generic methods
- 9:16Other bits of "fun"
- 11:35Summary - Act 1
- 14:14What about Foo
- 17:22Rescuing wildcards
- 18:06Representing wildcards How to represent wildcards in the bytecode?
- 19:35Translation with wildcards
- 21:59More translation examples
- 22:59Wildcard challenge - accessibili
- 26:33Summary - Act 2
- 29:31Sharing
- 35:21Don't erase so early
- 45:20What about the bytecodes?
- 47:52What's the point?
- 49:15Summary - Act 3
