Re: Static Method performance

["Brian Lee" <brian_a_lee@hotmail.com>]

I've seen about a 15% increase in performance between the same method static 
and non-static. The test is pretty basic (do this 1000000 times and time it) 
so I don't have real-world data.

The only downside I've experienced with static methods is that if your class 
is implementing an interface, the interface defined methods can't be static.

Other than this, I make as many methods as possible static (and final) for 
performance reasons. Since most of the code I write doesn't go into a 
published API, I declare final and then change it if extending becomes 
necessary.

BAL

>From: "Mayank Aggarwal" <aggarwalmayank@hotmail.com>
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>How does static method affect performance in Java?
>
>I understand that all the method variables are created on Stack and hence 
>each calling party gets its own stack of variables, hence there should not 
>be problems of concurrency as long as only method local variables are 
>manipulated.
>
>What other reasons are there for not using a static methods ?
>
>
>Thanks
>Mayank




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