[armedbear-cvs] r12632 - branches/less-reflection/abcl

[Alessio Stalla]

Author: astalla
Date: Fri Apr 23 17:27:25 2010
New Revision: 12632

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+The purpose of this branch is to implement a new mechanism to compile functions
+to Java classes and to load those functions from fasl files.
+
+Now each function is always loaded by name and instantiated by reflection.
+However it should be possible to avoid reflection in many cases, for example
+when loading local functions. In general the objective is to reduce the use of
+reflection as much as possible: we are considering the option of emitting a
+master loader class/function per FASL which will instantiate all the functions
+defined in the FASL using "new".
+
+To fully reach the objective we need:
+
+1. a classloader that knows how to load stuff from fasls
+2. a way of generating a loader class/function per fasl
+3. replacing all calls to loadCompiledFunction and similar with "new"
+
+status as of 2010-04-23:
+
+1. this is the value of *fasl-loader*, bound per-fasl, defined in FaslClassLoader.java
+
+2. todo
+
+3. done for local functions only