[GROOVY-7139] automated constant optimization for BigDecimal

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0-rc-1
• Component/s: Compiler, Static compilation
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Jochen Theodorou
• Created: 29/Oct/14 04:23
• Updated: 23/Dec/14 19:45
• Resolved: 23/Dec/14 02:38

Description

when writing double d = 1.2, then Groovy first creates a BigDecimal to then transform it to a double. Using any primitive type I think there is no need to first create the BigDecimal, it should be good enough to just create a constant for the target type. I think this is especially important for the static compiler, but a general Groovy problem