Java 8 Iterable.forEach() vs foreach loop

Question

Which of the following is better practice in Java 8?

Java 8:

joins.forEach(join -> mIrc.join(mSession, join));

Java 7:

Answer 1

TL;DR: List.stream().forEach() was the fastest.

I felt I should add my results from benchmarking iteration. I took a very simple approach (no benchmarking frameworks) and benchmarked 5 different methods:

1. classic for
2. classic foreach
3. List.forEach()
4. List.stream().forEach()
5. List.parallelStream().forEach

the testing procedure and parameters

private List list;
private final int size = 1_000_000;

public MyClass(){
    list = new ArrayList<>();
    Random rand = new Random();
    for (int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
        list.add(rand.nextInt(size * 50));
    }    
}
private void doIt(Integer i) {
    i *= 2; //so it won't get JITed out
}

The list in this class shall be iterated over and have some doIt(Integer i) applied to all it's members, each time via a different method. in the Main class I run the tested method three times to warm up the JVM. I then run the test method 1000 times summing the time it takes for each iteration method (using System.nanoTime()). After that's done i divide that sum by 1000 and that's the result, average time. example:

myClass.fored();
myClass.fored();
myClass.fored();
for (int i = 0; i < reps; ++i) {
    begin = System.nanoTime();
    myClass.fored();
    end = System.nanoTime();
    nanoSum += end - begin;
}
System.out.println(nanoSum / reps);

I ran this on a i5 4 core CPU, with java version 1.8.0_05

classic for

for(int i = 0, l = list.size(); i < l; ++i) {
    doIt(list.get(i));
}

execution time: 4.21 ms

classic foreach

for(Integer i : list) {
    doIt(i);
}

execution time: 5.95 ms

List.forEach()

list.forEach((i) -> doIt(i));

execution time: 3.11 ms

List.stream().forEach()

list.stream().forEach((i) -> doIt(i));

execution time: 2.79 ms

List.parallelStream().forEach

list.parallelStream().forEach((i) -> doIt(i));

execution time: 3.6 ms