> I thought I had read that they explicitly don't do that This is exactly what they do: https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/25-implicit-null-checks/ https:

> I thought I had read that they explicitly don't do that This is exactly what they do: https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/25-implicit-null-checks/ https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/25-implicit-null-che... When this happens it'll cause a deoptimization and recompilation of the code to include the null check rather than rely on the signal handler repeatedly.