Inner classes are more expensive, I guess

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[ziggy42]

Inner classes are more expensive, I guess

[kristofdho]

I've read an article which ran some benchmarks and concluded kotlin lambdas are faster than java lambdas though

[ziggy42]

Do you have a link?

[kristofdho]

https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/kotlinshiddencosts-benchmarks

[ziggy42]

Interesting. The cost of the additional class is removed when a singleton instance can be used

[rcgonzalezf]

@Tatskaari There are more implications to it, and Java8 sometimes it doesn’t fallback to use invokeDynamic. Brian Goetz explains why the took those decisions here:

[rcgonzalezf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0▾

[rcgonzalezf]

https://www.slideshare.net/jaxlondon2012/lambda-a-peek-under-the-hood-brian-goetz

[ziggy42]

Thank you

[Tatskaari]

@rcgonzalezf Thanks, I will read through that. I should mention that I've implemented ahead of time class generation without issue.