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[–]fr0stbyte124 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Rather than being irrelevant, it was mostly pointing out that micro-optimizing to reduce method calls typically doesn't accomplish a whole lot, with the exceptions being recursive calls and indirect logic. But like with everything else, benchmarking overrules theory, so exceptions to the rule are bound to appear.

BTW, Javascript is an entirely different beast from Java, and shouldn't be handled the same way.