java how expensive is a method call

Question

I\'m a beginner and I\'ve always read that it\'s bad to repeat code. However, it seems that in order to not do so, you would have to have extra method calls usually. Let\'s

Answer 1

I would definitely leave it as is. What if you change the clear() logic? It would be impractical to find all the places where you copied the 2 lines of code.