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From: Patrick Roemer <sangamon@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Java 8 closures vs. anonymous inner classes
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:38:17 +0100
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Responding to Sven Köhler:

> When I was digging through the byte code, invokedynamic was simply used 
> to invoke some fancy method that would basically encapsulate the 
> creation of the lambda object (which then is nothing more than an 
> instance of some class that implements the interface in question).

invokedynamic provides a layer of indirection that will allow switching
to another implementation.

http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/1/1e/2011_Goetz_Lambda.pdf

Best regards,
Patrick