Just want to clear up a few things here. This article focuses entirely on the HotSpot JVM. There are other JVMs out there that support invokedynamic, and they d

Just want to clear up a few things here. This article focuses entirely on the HotSpot JVM. There are other JVMs out there that support invokedynamic, and they don't all work the same way. Also saying that Java isn't a consumer of invokedynamic is only true currently and is likely to change in the future. The more people use invokedynamic, the more the compiler people are going to look at it. Not to mention that the current way things are done (at least in JRuby), the compiler basically hits a wall in a lot of cases because it can't decide what to inline and where to get it. Invokedynamic will (with a bit of VM magic) make those optimizations a lot easier for the compiler to do.