You haven't provided enough details of your object allocation. It depends entirely on escape analysis and whether the JIT thinks the object escapes. If you're d

You haven't provided enough details of your object allocation. It depends entirely on escape analysis and whether the JIT thinks the object escapes. If you're doing a simple non escaping allocation it shouldn't matter: var i = new SmallObject().getI(); Here's a good reading on it: https://gist.github.com/JohnTortugo/c2607821202634a6509ec3c321ebf370 https://gist.github.com/JohnTortugo/c2607821202634a6509ec3c3...