class initialization check overhead

[Adam Megacz]

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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