There's good advice there but you definitely need to not go crazy and get into premature optimization land. If you've got a tight section of critical code like

There's good advice there but you definitely need to not go crazy and get into premature optimization land. If you've got a tight section of critical code like he does this is a good technique, however reuse of the same objects through the critical section implies: - Mutable objects - Harder to verify correctness - Need to be very careful to avoid some very very serious bugs and security issues. E.x. in his HFT example. Improper reuse of an object without correctly resetting/setting all the fields could create bugs as serious as executing a trade against the wrong user or leaking data between users. None of this is really rocket science or java-specific. It's all basic old school optimization & computer science.