Sharing dynamically loaded classes with JShell instance

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only speaking to a small part of this rather substantial question:

Additionally, exchanging DirectExecutionControl with LocalExecutionControl gives the same results, but I do not understand the difference between the two classes

LocalExecutionControl extends DirectExecutionControl and it overrides only invoke(Method method), the bodies of which are ...

local:

    Thread snippetThread = new Thread(execThreadGroup, () -> {
            ...
            res[0] = doitMethod.invoke(null, new Object[0]);
            ...
    });

direct:

    Object res = doitMethod.invoke(null, new Object[0]);

so the difference between the two classes is that direct invokes the method in the current thread, and local invokes it in a new thread. the same classloader is used in both cases, so you'd expect the same results in terms of sharing memory and loaded classes