[rvm-research] RVMThread --> Why Many Methods are Static

Khaled Z Mahmoud <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:58:49 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.jikes.rvm.devel
Message-ID <CAER=_eX0n7dhLjzO=zFOX9wBHR5NmA2XBHtQqj5GFrOsPV7YXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

Why many or most methods in the RVMThread class are declared as static.
They use getCurrentThread to a reference to the current thread.

Why aren't they implemented as instance methods since many of them do work
related to the thread instance ????

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Regards,
Khaled Mahmoud

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