Re: [Classpath] Re: Patch: merge several Number classes with Classpath

["C. Scott Ananian" <cananian at lesser-magoo dot lcs dot mit dot edu>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Bryce McKinlay wrote:

> > > +  static final Class getPrimitiveClass(String type)
> > > +  {
> > > +    if ("int".equals (type))
> > > +      return int.class;
> 
> This method is also kind of inefficient, particularly if, as the doc says, it
> can be called "once per ClassLoader per type".

That's "one per ClassLoader per *primitive* type, more likely, which means
9 times per ClassLoader, which (considering the number of ClassLoaders in
a typical program) is not very often at all.
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