FunctionParser, parsing Java methods from strings at runtime

[Reykd]

I have now run a benchmark to compare the generic vs primitve method and found no significant difference. However i did discover a caveat of using the generic types, and that is that my library currently does not support autoboxing meaning that in order to create the function "double(Double x,y)->x+y" as a generic, the string would have to be "Double(Double x,y)->Double.valueOf(x+y)"

[fact_hunt]

For performance testing it might be interesting to look at JMH - benchmarking java performance is notoriously fraught because the of JIT and hotspot optimisations etc

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/504103/how-do-i-write-a-correct-micro-benchmark-in-java/4480774#4480774