Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com

8023984: Lambda linkage performance - use a method ref to a static factory instead of a ctor ref
Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com

8027318: Lambda Metafactory: generate serialization-hostile read/writeObject methods for non-serializable lambdas
Reviewed-by: rfield, psandoz

Reviewed-by: alexsch, smarks

Reviewed-by: iveresov, jrose

Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: dan.smith@oracle.com

8015808: Typo in MethodHandle javadoc
Summary: Fix typos and javadoc markup and extraneous paragraph tags
Reviewed-by: lancea

8022718: Runtime accessibility checking: protected class, if extended, should be accessible from another package
Summary: Modify accessibility check; it was muddled about Java vs JVM protection terminology.
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Wildcard marker interfaces can cause duplicate implemented interfaces in generated lambda class
Reviewed-by: briangoetz

8024179: Document limitations and performance characteristics of stream sources and operations
8024138: (Spec clarification) Lambda Metafacory spec should state DMH constraint on implMethod
Reviewed-by: mduigou
Contributed-by: brian.goetz@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com

Summary: Added test for IllegalAccessException -> IllegalAccessError path to check if root cause was AbstractMethodError
Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: ksrini, ahgross

Reviewed-by: plevart, mchung, forax, jjb
Contributed-by: brian.goetz@oracle.com, henry.jen@oracle.com

Summary: add wildcard to unreflectConstructor, various clarifications and minor edits
Reviewed-by: mchung, darcy, twisti

Summary: align CONSTANT_MethodHandle and Lookup.find* API calls, clarify security manager & @CallerSensitive interactions
Reviewed-by: mchung, twisti

Summary: promote an existing private method; make unit tests on all argument positions to arity 10 with mixed types
Reviewed-by: twisti, vlivanov

Summary: Align MH semantic with bytecode behavior of constructor and static member accesses, regarding <clinit> invocation.
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy, abuckley, vlivanov

Summary: add an explicit check for leading "<", upgrade the unit tests
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy

Summary: Document error conditions that may occur when calling a "spreader" method handle.  Use IAE in all cases.
Reviewed-by: twisti, vlivanov

Summary: clarification of erroneous reading of spec. that led to 7194534
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy

Summary: Replicate JVM logic for access control that makes Object.clone appear public when applied to an array type.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: use a per-MH one element cache for MH.asType to speed up MH.invoke; also cache enough MH constants to cache LMF.metafactory
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Restore invokespecial to lambda metafactory
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: Inserted code to convert specific exceptions, case-by-case, plus a test.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, rbackman
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, briangoetz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

8024283: 10 nashorn tests fail with similar stack trace InternalError with cause being NoClassDefFoundError
Summary: Fix pre-existing 292 bug tickled by combo of nashorn code and MethodHandleInfo changes
Reviewed-by: jrose
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: A major overhaul to MethodHandleInfo and method handles in general.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, twisti
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: dfuchs, jrose, jdn, ahgross, chegar

8020010: Move lambda bridge creation from metafactory and VM to compiler
Summary: JDK/metafactory component of the bridge fix and and MethodType vs. MethodHandle changes.
Reviewed-by: twisti, briangoetz, forax
Contributed-by: robert.field@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, alanb, dfuchs

Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: paired with 8013789: Compiler should emit bridges in interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose