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Re:State of the Lambda by mbell on Saturday September 22, 2012 @07:17PM (#4559324)
Just a guess but the JIT may be detecting the recursion and replacing it with a loop. The recursion signature is the same for each method so the JIT may be able to catch that.

Letting the JIT warm up is enlightening though, I looped the 3 tests 1000 times and also looped my ruby test 1000 times and I get this:

  Explicit type w/@CompileStatic took 5 ms
  Groovy w/ explicit types took 11 ms
  Full dynamic  took 75 ms

  Ruby took 464ms
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Re:State of the Lambda by mgkimsal on Saturday September 22, 2012 @09:26PM (#4559633)
Very interesting - haven't compared it to Ruby, but the 75ms was interesting on its own. I knew dynamically Groovy would generally be faster than Ruby, but not by that much, given the runtime dynamism.

Thanks! (and thanks for the pull request fix)

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