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Is there any way in kotlin native to instantiate an object when all I have is a `KClass&lt;*&gt;` ?

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I'm trying to achieve a nice API to cast objects from one type to another using `val child = myParent.asType&lt;MyChild&gt;()` and currently it works through that `TypeCasting.castObject(obj, targetClass)` method that is implemented using a map of KClass objects to a factory function for each class in the library.

But it looks like having that map of factory funtions has a huge impact on the time spent in `linkExecutable` tasks because (I presume) every class is potentially referenced in the output binary.