Re: Method.equals() question

[Per Bothner]

Archie Cobbs wrote:
> I'm assuming here that the VM guarantees that only one Method object
> will ever be created for each declared method in a class.

Why are you assuming this?  It is possible the VM internal
data structures are unrelated to java.lang.reflect.Method,
and so it may make sense to create a new one each time it
is requested than try to cache it.
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