Re: [xmlvm-users] Groovy in XMLVM

[Jochen T. <bla...@gm...>]

Sascha Haeberling wrote:
[...]
>         As for Groovy Apps on Android: it seems to me that all you need
>         to do is run the Groovy-generated class files through the DEX
>         compiler, no?
> 
> 
>     Oh that works of course. Only that Groovy is so slow, that it is
>     unusable there
> 
> 
> Oh, so you mean the groovy classes that are compiled to DEX are too slow?

the startup time is the first problem, the general speed the second.
While the JVM can Groovy to a reasonable speed, most of the things we
use for that are not available there. for example we cannot use runtime
generated classes... or am I wrong? Without them we really on pure
reflection, and reflection is not known to be fast.

bye blackdrag

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