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📜 WAYPOINT LESSON

Checkpoint: The Loading Detective

⭐⭐⭐ advanced⏳ 20 min read📍 Lesson 128 of 180

Assemble runtime evidence that class literals are silent, forName is loud, and the pool canonicalizes.

Checkpoint: the loading detective

Three facts about the JVM must fall out of your one implementation: a class literal never initializes a class; forName does; and the constant pool makes certain identities true that heap allocation makes false. Assemble the evidence.