On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > I can find no documentation that indicates that the @Override speeds up > processing. All documentation that I have found on @Override indicates > that it is a hint to the IDE to let the user know when changing a signature > may be an issue in large and complex classes. Infact the Override > annotation is marked as having a retention of "Source", so I don't see how > it could play a role in runtime evaluation.
I think Andy was asking about the perfomance of overriding a Java8 default method (as opposed to implementing a method for an interface that doesn't provide a default method). -- Joshua Taylor, http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~tayloj/
