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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFgxAFdxYAQ
Cliff Click, during the Q/A, talks about not using getters and setters if you really really care about performance. One of the reasons being that there is a chance the getter/setter may not be inlined. Another may be that the function calls may cause a failure to inline hot spot areas due to a threshold being hit due to the function calls.
