Indeed. Looking at the benchmark results, the conclusion should be that the overhead of object creation can be neglected for most types of applications (until i

Indeed. Looking at the benchmark results, the conclusion should be that the overhead of object creation can be neglected for most types of applications (until it can't, as you wrote). Edit: Based on my experience, object creation is ridicously fast in the OpenJDK JVM and trying to avoid it will, for most applications, just result in code that is harder to maintain.