SquirrelJME/SquirrelJME

# 2014/11/10

***DISCLAIMER***: _These notes are from the defunct k8 project which_
_precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26!_
_The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such_
_all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no_
_longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it._

## 09:45

The thing is, do descriptors contain subdescriptors that are just single
fields and such? They should, and perhaps I should use a local cache map of
descriptors because they will be very common. I will have to check the hash
code for SoftReference, although Strings are very static I might not have to
worry about such things. Appears not that they do not use the inside hashCode.

## 13:44

Descriptors and Signatures are a mess. A descriptor is a Signature but a
Signature is not always a Descriptor. So I cannot easily use the same stuff
and perform potential code reduction in this case. So perhaps instead of two
classes I will have one type class which can be turned into a signature or
erased. Creation of the class will extend from either descriptor strings or
signature strings. Descriptors will just reference themselves so to speak but
signatures would have potential erasure (they need a map for variable types).
Then this way if fromSignature is done on a class that has no generic
information at all then it is just a plain descriptor. So that would mean that
fromDescriptor uses fromSignature always but adds a check to make sure that it
has no generic bits in it.

## 20:41

Did a bunch of descriptor work today, this TypeInfo appears to be much better
than what I had before.