I probably need an example of what you thinking are here. Right now in HEAD all the color keywords are stored in a HashMap created in GenericColor so the keywords initialization is already done. Putting the keywords in static array would require us to somehow search the array and I don't see how that will be much faster.
You should perhaps also be aware that the values in a static array gets assigned to the array one element at a time. So
static int[] a = { 101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108 };
becomes in bytecodes:
Method static {} 0 bipush 8 2 newarray int 4 dup 5 iconst_0 6 bipush 101 8 iastore 9 dup 10 iconst_1 11 bipush 102 13 iastore 14 dup 15 iconst_2 16 bipush 103 18 iastore ...
and so on for each index. (In case you don't know bytecode by heart, iconst and bipush both push a constant on the stack and iastore pops 3 items from the stack; an index, a value and an array and assign the value to the index in the array).
Finn,
I can't imagine there is anyone here who doesn't know bytecode by heart. (Except maybe me.)
Peter -- Peter B. West <http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html>
