> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pugh [mailto:pugh@cs.umd.edu]
> The compiler can't reorder them unless it can prove that the
> results of that reordering are not observable.
Right. In this case access to statics can have observable side-effects due
to class initialisation and so can't be reordered unless the compiler can
establish that there are no such side-effects. This seems a shame for
something that can only happen once in the execution of a system - is it
the price we pay for lazy class initialisation?
David
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