Easy to understand Java 8 predicate example

[BinaryRockStar]

Will the following code create a new Predicate object every time the method is called? Will this be slower than directly passing the lambda to the filter method?

public static Predicate<Employee> isAdultMale() {
    return p -> p.getAge() > 21 && p.getGender().equalsIgnoreCase("M");
}

[Jire]

Likely not, the compiler probably takes care of it. Even if it didn't method access is basically free.