What is the gain from declaring a method as static

Question

I\'ve recently been looking through my warnings in Eclipse and come across this one:

Answer 1

I was missing some numbers for the speed differences. So I tried to benchmark them which turned out to be not so easy: Java loop gets slower after some runs / JIT's fault?

I finally used Caliper and the results are the same as running my tests by hand:

There is no measurable difference for static/dynamic calls. At least not for Linux/AMD64/Java7.

The Caliper Results are here: https://microbenchmarks.appspot.com/runs/1426eac9-36ca-48f0-980f-0106af064e8f#r:scenario.benchmarkSpec.methodName,scenario.vmSpec.options.CMSLargeCoalSurplusPercent,scenario.vmSpec.options.CMSLargeSplitSurplusPercent,scenario.vmSpec.options.CMSSmallCoalSurplusPercent,scenario.vmSpec.options.CMSSmallSplitSurplusPercent,scenario.vmSpec.options.FLSLargestBlockCoalesceProximity,scenario.vmSpec.options.G1ConcMarkStepDurationMillis

and my own results are:

Static: 352 ms
Dynamic: 353 ms
Static: 348 ms
Dynamic: 349 ms
Static: 349 ms
Dynamic: 348 ms
Static: 349 ms
Dynamic: 344 ms

The Caliper Test class was:

public class TestPerfomanceOfStaticMethodsCaliper extends Benchmark {

    public static void main( String [] args ){

        CaliperMain.main( TestPerfomanceOfStaticMethodsCaliper.class, args );
    }

    public int timeAddDynamic( long reps ){
        int r=0;
        for( int i = 0; i < reps; i++ ) {
            r |= addDynamic( 1, i );
        }
        return r;
    }

    public int timeAddStatic( long reps ){
        int r=0;
        for( int i = 0; i < reps; i++ ) {
            r |= addStatic( 1, i );
        }
        return r;
    }

    public int addDynamic( int a, int b ){

        return a+b;
    }

    private static int addStatic( int a, int b ){

        return a+b;
    }

}

And my own Test class was:

public class TestPerformanceOfStaticVsDynamicCalls {

    private static final int RUNS = 1_000_000_000;

    public static void main( String [] args ) throws Exception{

        new TestPerformanceOfStaticVsDynamicCalls().run();
    }

    private void run(){

        int r=0;
        long start, end;

        for( int loop = 0; loop<10; loop++ ){

            // Benchmark

            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for( int i = 0; i < RUNS; i++ ) {
                r += addStatic( 1, i );
            }
            end = System.currentTimeMillis();
            System.out.println( "Static: " + ( end - start ) + " ms" );

            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for( int i = 0; i < RUNS; i++ ) {
                r += addDynamic( 1, i );
            }
            end = System.currentTimeMillis();
            System.out.println( "Dynamic: " + ( end - start ) + " ms" );

            // Do something with r to keep compiler happy
            System.out.println( r );

        }

    }

    private int addDynamic( int a, int b ){

        return a+b;
    }

    private static int addStatic( int a, int b ){

        return a+b;
    }

}