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Timing

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Let us look at the overhead of calculation time caused by the object orientation. We first define some simple test methods and fields within a class hierarchy.
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Next, we create objects to access the class members and check the evaluation.
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We are now ready to test the access delay due to object or class access. All timings were obtained in Mathematica 6.0.1 running in Mac OS X on a MacBook Pro with 2.2 GHz. All measurements are not fully reproducible and give a rough estimate about calculation times. Up to a factor of two in calculation times was observed between two identical inputs.
A public field is accessed faster than other class members. There are a few thousand accesses each second.
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The access to a public method is slower.
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Due to privilege checks, protected and private class members are slower in access.
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