Static block vs static method - initializing static fields

Question

Out of curiosity, I measured the performance between static block and static method initializer. First, I implemented the above mentioned methods in two separate java classes, l

Answer 1

I think that the reason why the static block version is slower than the static method version could be due to the different JIT optimization that they get ...

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