On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Guillaume Laforge <glaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think the "pro static annotation" people are basing their argument on the assumption that "pure" dynamic Groovy will never be able to attain the same performance of a non-dynamic-annotated variant. If re-architecting Groovy's MOP will allow it to attain ~half of Java's speed, then fine, that's great, go there.

But I agree with Martin's argument that most people will ignore such an annotation until it comes time to do performance tuning anyway. Then sprinkle a few annotations in the performance bottlenecks, versus (the current solution) breaking some code out into Java classes. Like I said, I would prefer the former, but if it truly won't be necessary after "Groovy 2.0" then it is a moot point.

As annotations go, aren't they modular in the sense that you can add hooks into places without them actually being hard-coded into the compiler? Maybe the groovy compiler doesn't support it now, but doesn't the Java (5 or 6) compiler? Would it be possible to allow this compile-time annotation without "invading" core Groovy?

-Tom

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