[GROOVY-2058] increase Closure performance by using a specialized Closure MetaClass

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-beta-3
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Jochen Theodorou
• Created: 14/Aug/07 14:32
• Updated: 14/Aug/07 14:55
• Resolved: 14/Aug/07 14:55

Description

Closures generated by the Groovy compiler are of special nature, things that the runtime could use to optimize call performance. Instead, the runtime uses the standard MetaClass, which contains special logic for Closures in general, but not special to generated Closures.