Sean, that's not how class loaders work AFAIK. the mere presence of an import does not trigger the load. You have to touch it.
HOWEVER, if I am wrong, I will (a) buy the beer, and (b) add the reflective code to get rid of the import. On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nope, since it imports MersenneTwisterRNG, that class will be > initialized the moment RandomUtils is loaded. > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Benson Margulies > <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That would make a difference. If the code in RandomUtils never new's >> the Mersenne class, then it's static blocks would never run. If >> necessary, the Mersenne class could by loaded explicitly, but I don't >> think we have to go that far. >> >> So the question to me is whether we lose any test quality by using the JDK >> RNG. >> >
