Static fields and specialization

[Palo Marton]

Yes, but you can not create specialized implementations for user defined
value types. So these will be left with much slower implementation.
Singleton implementation compiles to just 0-1 instructions and
implementation that allocates new instance will be much slower.

And other problem - such approach is against goals of specialization: You
will have to write separate code for each primitive type.

Pavol Marton, aSc
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> In the case of Optional.empty() and others like Collections.emptyList()
> it's a method that you're invoking. There is no need to implement static
> field specialization. You can just get your specialized implementations to
> return different singleton instances. Ok - so this means you now have 9
> empty instances rather than 1 but that's basically nothing in terms of
> memory consumption. In the case of Optional you already have manual
> specialisation for 3 primitive cases in the form of Optionalint and friends
> so its really 9 rather than 4 anyway.
>
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>
>   Richard Warburton
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