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# 2014/09/26

***DISCLAIMER***: _These notes are from the defunct k8 project which_
_precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26!_
_The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such_
_all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no_
_longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it._

## 07:49

It feels great to get some progress done, avoiding walls is nice.

## 22:41

Had this idea for the native compiler optimization, optimize out certain
aspects of the library. Say if checkedList in Collections is used and the
compiler determines that the specific argument is never violated and it is
known to be impossible to violate, then it could optimize out the static
method call and make it a plain list. However it can only be safely done if
the list is local and always remains local (never becomes visible to the
outside).