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While many of the methods in java.lang.Object have a native implementation, there are still other methods that do sport a pure java implementation: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/file/tip/src/share/...

[seanmcdirmid]

Sure, but...if you look at the JVMS, there are a lot of special cases concerning java.lang.Object to help with bootstrapping.