It is beneficial to create new static methods to replace lambda expressions?

Simon told us to replace the lambda expression by method handles. Is there an advantage to do so, such as better performance? And it means that it is always advantageous to create new static methods instead of write lambda expressions?

What Simon says - or should have said - is to use a reference method, is not a handle method. (A method handle is a construction of low level used by the invokedynamic bytecode and as such is much closer to the JVM. "It is not a feature of the Java language).

In all cases, it can often be a good idea to use a method instead of an explicit lambda expression reference. Performance is not a problem. I did a comparative analysis and I was unable to discern the difference.

First of all, you may already have a method that does what you want, so if you need a lambda that does the same thing, just write a method reference in the existing method.

But sometimes it makes sense to take a lambda expression and then replace the lambda with a method reference refactor in a named method. There are several reasons for this:

  • Testability. A named method is easier to unit test to a lambda expression incorporated in a more complex construction as a data flow pipeline.
  • Reuse. The same logic can be used in several places, by calls direct or other references of the method.
  • Readability. If a lambda begins to be too big (in particular, several lines), it can disrupt the readability of a data flow pipeline.
  • Debugging. While most debuggers can today point stop and step by step through lambda expressions, control flow can be confusing.

It is above all a question of degree. I find that about 95% of the lambda expressions that I write, or calculate something trivial, for example

x -> x + 1

or call a method in a way that cannot be expressed using a method reference, for example

(a, b) -> a.foo(b.getBar())

Rarely, I'll write an inline lambda, such as multi-instructions

x -> { foo(x); bar(x); }

Anything more complicated I'll tend to refactor in a separate method and use a method reference.

Finally, a method reference can often be an instance instead of a static method method. If you're in an instance method and you want to write a reference to a method that is called on the same instance, you can write

this::someMethod

refer to it.

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