Constant descriptor resolved too soon during constant resolution?

[Jorn Vernee]

> Yes, we're discussing that now.  The side-effects story is a deep
> rabbit hole; not only do you have the obvious side effects (those that
> are manifest in the method to compute the constant), but there's also
> class loading, class initialization, method linkage, etc.  We're
> trying to come up with a more principled story of which are safe to
> elide and which not.

Yes, that makes sense, thanks. I'm looking forward to hearing more about 
that!