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Who agrees with the idea that developers should write "dumb code," meaning straightforward, clean code that follows the most obvious object-oriented principles, in order to get the best compiler optimization -- and that clever, hacked-up, bit-banging code will get poorer results?

  1. Brian Goetz

  2. Heinz Kabutz

  3. Cay Horstmann

  4. All of the above

  5. None of the above

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Prominent Java experts, including Brian Goetz, Heinz Kabutz, and Cay Horstmann, advocate for writing clean, straightforward code because modern JIT compilers optimize standard OO patterns much better than complex, hand-optimized code.