private and final methods
:confused: can anyone think of an instance where it wouldn't be advantageous to declared a private method final? b/c as i've read final methods optimized could by being mainline. The only disadvantage of using final is that the method can't be over-riden by a subclass... but private methods aren't inherited anyway! it seems to make perfect sense to me to declare all all my private methods as final .... :o unless the Java compiler already does that and it would be redundant. Any thoughts anyone?