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> Wait, what? But, that's inherently constant foldable without reasoning about string hash codes; we don't need them at all.

Their goal wasn't to improve key lookups in hash tables, that is more or less just an example.It was to improve optimization of variables with lazy initialisation overall and the hash of String uses lazy initialisation.



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