Re: [cp-patches] Patch: support for reading directories viaURL.openConnection()

[Archie Cobbs]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> Static initializers are quite expensive, so we should try to limit
> them as much as reasonable.

I'm curious about what you mean exactly by this statement..

Obviously, we should avoid executing static initializers whose result
isn't going to be used, so "on demand" initialization is usually better.

Otherwise, there doesn't seem to me to be any reason why code should
be more expensive to execute in a static initializer than outside
of one.. is that what you're implying? If so, why, and wouldn't those
reasons be dependent on the particular VM being used?

Thanks,
-Archie

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