/** Reference to Finalizer.startFinalizer(). */
  private static final Method startFinalizer;

  static {
    Class<?> finalizer =
        loadFinalizer(new SystemLoader(), new DecoupledLoader(), new DirectLoader());
    startFinalizer = getStartFinalizer(finalizer);
  }

  /** The actual reference queue that our background thread will poll. */
  final ReferenceQueue<Object> queue;