> EDIT: What I’m trying to say is that there is very little overhead to creating short-lived objects in Java. I've been working on high performance Java softwa

> EDIT: What I’m trying to say is that there is very little overhead to creating short-lived objects in Java. I've been working on high performance Java software (databases) for many years now and the overhead of creating short lived objects is bearable only because we're going so far trying not to create those objects, writing Java in a kinda C-style - no objects, just primitives as much as you can. The total overhead is not just bumping up the pointer and zeroing memory but actually all what happens when the GC runs out of the slab. By allocating short lived objects youre making GC collect earlier and overall doing more work. Also the faster you allocate, the more objects survive the collection and more objects must be copied. That process is very expensive and also very complex.