class initialization check overhead

Wed Oct 23 11:21:00 GMT 2002

I noticed that every static method has a check at the top of the
method to see if <clinit> needs to be run. Doesn't this incur
substantial overhead?
Could this be eliminated by putting each class (static data and code)
on its own page and write-protecting the page? Then you could catch
SIGSEGV and perform the initialization.
 - a
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