On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:33 PM, deamon <
christian.helmbold@...> wrote:
>
> > Is picking out the few performance weaknesses the right way to judge the
> > overall speed of Groovy?
>
> May be the performance in real world applications is not so critical as it
> seems, but the test results show that groovy has fundamental performance
> problems!
Statically typed languages will always be faster than dynamic languages.
> JRuby is also a dynamic language with metaclasses on the jvm and is much
> faster than ruby.
Ruby is a pretty slow language.
Compare JRuby with Java too.
> > To me the Groovy performance is absolutely sufficient because of the
> > easy integration with Java. If something's too slow, I do it in Java.
>
> It sounds a bit like denial of the performance relevance.
Again, microbenchmarks like these are not something I'd rely on, but
I'd work on a plausible scenario and make my measures of my use cases
myself.
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Guillaume Laforge
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