> You can't provide it in all cases, I'm curious how reliable it is. It seems simple, intuitively, but Java (the JVM?) seems to have a reputation of being sub-

> You can't provide it in all cases, I'm curious how reliable it is. It seems simple, intuitively, but Java (the JVM?) seems to have a reputation of being sub-par in this respect. Maybe it has to do with knowing how the the variables that are sent to other methods are used; if it only has local knowledge (the method that the object is created in), then I guess it has to be pessimistic with regards to all objects that are used as a parameter in method calls in that method.