In the official documentation about stored scripts (here and but also here), we state that the compilation time is reduced for stored scripts compared to inline scripts, but it turns out that this is not true.

Stored script are also not faster to execute than inline scripts, but the fact that they are stored in the cluster state might reduce the request payload and latency depending on how big the script is and how frequently requests are sent.

We should revise the verbiage around stored scripts to better reflect the above.