Lambda vs anonymous inner class performance: reducing the load on the ClassLoader?

Question

I would like to know how big of a benefit lambdas have in Java 8. I agree that it might be more readable sometimes to use lambdas, but does it have really such of a big impa

Answer 1

Oracle has a presentation covering some of the performance differences. It appears that there are quite a few factors that impact performance of lambdas vs. anonymous classes.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jvmls2013kuksen-2014088.pdf