@Grab(group='org.gperfutils', module='gbench', version='0.4.3-groovy-2.4')

String a = 'The quick brown fox'
String b = 'jumps over the lazy dog'
int x = 1
double y = 2

benchmark {
      'simple concat' {
          String concat = a + ' ' + b + ' ' + x + ' ' + y
      }
      'gstring' {
          String concat = "$a $b $x $y"
      }
      'gstring (closures)' {
         String concat = "${-> a} ${-> b} ${-> x} ${-> y}"
      }
      'StringBuilder' {
         String concat = new StringBuilder()
            .append(a).append(' ').append(b).append(' ').append(x).append(' ').append(y)
      }
}.prettyPrint()