title: Overhead: method call vs. object creation
body: <p>As far as I understand the JVM, it should generally be cheaper to invoke a method (i.e. allocate a new stack frame, etc), than to create a new object. </p>
  
  <p>However, can we estimate just how big the difference in overhead between the two generally is, assuming that both the method and the object declare the same number of local/instance variables of the same type, and instantiate them to the same values?</p>