That went in a different direction than I expected it to - but it's also not specific to object oriented programming. Richard Stevens summarized this 40 years

That went in a different direction than I expected it to - but it's also not specific to object oriented programming. Richard Stevens summarized this 40 years ago: "modularity is the enemy of performance". We've mostly accepted that this is an acceptable tradeoff, although the author (and I) aren't fully on board.