CHAPTER6
Stream Performance
This book has put forward two reasons for using lambdas and streams: to get better programs, and to get better performance. By now, the code examples should have demonstrated the claim for better programs, but we have not yet examined the claims about performance. In this chapter, those claims will be investigated through the technique of microbenchmarking.
This is a dangerous business: results from microbenchmarking run the risk of being used to guide program design in unsuitable situations. Since the overwhelming majority of situations are unsuitable, that is a serious problem! For example, a programmer’s intuition ...
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