Re: Method.equals() question

[Archie Cobbs]

Per Bothner 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.

You're right, you could certainly do things that way instead and
in that case my idea of using "this == o" for equals() wouldn't work.

In that case the VM implementor better take a look at Field.equals()
and Constructor.equals() too because that's what they do as well.
So perhaps all three should be annotated with appropriate comments.

-Archie

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