Throw a pre-fabricated NoClassDefFoundError.
When a class loader tries to load a class, it first asks its parent to
look for it. This continues up the chain until the bootstrap class loader
is reached. If the class can't be found, the bootstrap loader throws a
NoClassDefFoundError. As a result, we're throwing at least one exception
for every class we load that doesn't come from the bootstrap path.
This change creates a "stock" NoClassDefFoundError exception with a trivial
stack trace and throws that instead, saving the overhead of creating and
initializing the exception object.
I think the only way that anyone will see this is if they try to
load a class directly from the bootstrap loader, in which case the
ClassNotFoundException will show the canned NCDFE as the cause. I
don't think any useful diagnostic information is being lost.
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