IgorMinar/angular.js — comment on commit e07dd382169da0e29d6be05e777dec10b05314d5
File: src/widgets.js line 378
By mhevery:

no we should not encourage it, but ng:repeat is the most likely source of speed issues, and function calling is slow especially in IE. Also the same comment is few lines later that we for not use forEach for the same reason.