Sure, I am just confirming that mindset, but can you really reason about the performance impact of that allocation? Even if it does end up allocating due to esc

Sure, I am just confirming that mindset, but can you really reason about the performance impact of that allocation? Even if it does end up allocating due to escape analysis not being sufficient, it will do a thread local pointer bump allocation on a hot, in-cache arena basically, and will just be zero-cost cleared once the still achievable objects are moved. My point is, knowing when to think/not think about allocating and its relevant costs is the proper way to program in a high level language. Only care about it when you are at a part that runs in a hot loop or very often, etc. Pretty much as per the second part of the often partially quoted “premature optimization…”.