Groovy 1.5, first thoughts
January 20th, 2008 Posted in Groovy
Groovy 1.5 was released at the start of the month, so I decided to re-run my speed test to see if it was any faster. Turns out that while it is still much slower than the java version, it is about 25% faster than the groovy 1.0 version.
The other new feature that I love about groovy 1.5 is the much improved groovy console, which is so much better that it can actually be used when you want to test out more than an 3 line script 
Another interesting feature is the cross compiler, which can compile Java source code too.
