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11y ago
No, invokedynamic is not mandatory for lambda. It's a proposed translation, which has the advantage to make lambdas that do not capture values to be seen as constant by the VM. But you're right that certified Java 7 VM must have a
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11y ago
"Java 8 was SUPPOSED to an even bigger shift than Java 5" No, it's not, Java 8 is mostly lambdas and unlike generics which requires coordinate effort between the client side and the API side, lambdas are just syntactic sugar