alt Hacker NewsI personally hate access controls in general since it always made be release a big sigh as a I was typing .getClass().getMethod()/getField() knowing that it hurts performance.
I personally hate access controls in general since it always made be release a big sigh as a I was typing .getClass().getMethod()/getField() knowing that it hurts performance.
That kind of code doesn't have to hurt performance, as long as monomorphization, inlining or JITting are available to the toolchain. If every single method access is a virtual-table call, then yes, there's an "unnecessary" cost. But you shouldn't be writing high-level looking code in such a language if you care about that level of performance.