Blogging Roller

Performance could be much better in some cases:

class A{
counter=0
foo()
{
this.counter++
return this.counter
}
}
class B extends A {
}
class SampleMain {
static void main(args) {
obj= new B()
start = System.currentTimeMillis();
for ( i in 0..10000000 ) {
obj.foo()
}
end = System.currentTimeMillis();
print( end - start );
}
}

Takes much longer then in other scripting languages.

Posted by Unknown on December 19, 2003 at 09:11 AM EST #

Posted by Pratik Patel on December 19, 2003 at 11:57 AM EST #

Posted by Dave Johnson on December 19, 2003 at 04:41 PM EST #

It does not have compile time checking, so some idiot error is not caught until runtime. Sure they added a static compile annotation, but at that point why not just use Java. Groovy programmers are not disciplined, so they write sloppy code that looks like VB 6, and Groovy lets them get away from it. It is 2016, and Groovy is still dog slow when compared to Java. Pivotal dropped Groovy, so who is their sponsor now? Not going to bank a corporate information system on some toy project with no corporate sponsors and then find out the devs have given up to focus on "Real Life (TM)" -> which happens to be the lamest excuse to stop supporting a project.

Posted by 66.192.21.18 on March 29, 2016 at 04:18 PM EDT #