I have to point out that you could have easily tested this on your own.
Just writing a trivial ~20 line program that draws a sprite flipped or not 1 million times and timed it would answer the question.
A profiler could also answer the question of whether the "flip" operation was expensive or not.
Next time you run into a question like this, maybe spending a little time figuring out the answer yourself is worth-while
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