Did you actually test it? Some time ago someone at another forum made a similar claim that returning an Optional from a method in Java will be surely optimized

Did you actually test it? Some time ago someone at another forum made a similar claim that returning an Optional from a method in Java will be surely optimized as we well, but it turned out that it wasn't (https://pkolaczk.github.io/overhead-of-optional/ https://pkolaczk.github.io/overhead-of-optional/).