What everyone else has said about optimization is absolutely true.<\/p>\n
There is no reason from a performance point of view<\/em> to inline the method. If it’s a performance issue, the JIT in your JVM will inline it. In java, method calls are so close to free that it isn’t worth thinking about it.<\/p>\n That being said, there’s a different issue here. Namely, it is<\/em> bad programming practice to call an overrideable method (i.e., one that is not What happens if someone adds a subclass of Then the Note that Java and C++ differ here: in C++, a superclass constructor that calls a Given that, I think it’s probably cleaner in your case to inline the What everyone else has said about optimization is absolutely true. There is no reason from a performance point of view to inline the method. If it’s a performance issue, the JIT in your JVM will inline it. In java, method calls are so close to free that it isn’t worth thinking about it. That being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}final<\/code>, static<\/code>, or private<\/code>) from the constructor. (Effective Java, 2nd Ed., p. 89 in the item titled “Design and document for inheritance or else prohibit it”)<\/p>\nBinarySearchTree<\/code> called LoggingBinarySearchTree<\/code> that overrides all public methods with code like:<\/p>\npublic void clear(){\n this.callLog.addCall(\"clear\");\n super.clear();\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\nLoggingBinarySearchTree<\/code> will never be constructable! The issue is that this.callLog<\/code> will be null<\/code> when the BinarySearchTree<\/code> constructor is running, but the clear<\/code> that gets called is the overridden one, and you’ll get a NullPointerException<\/code>.<\/p>\nvirtual<\/code> method ends up calling the one defined in the superclass, not the overridden one. People switching between the two languages sometimes forget this.<\/p>\nclear<\/code> method when called from the constructor<\/em>, but in general in Java you should go ahead and make all the method calls you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"