Came across an article which says function referen...
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Mahmoo
05/19/2024, 8:22 AMCame across an article which says function references are slower than lambda.
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Mahmoo
05/19/2024, 8:26 AMhttps://vtsen.hashnode.dev/prefer-function-reference-over-lambda-in-kotlin-wrong
I have tried the same tests with kotlin version 2.0.0 release
it turns out that the lambda test is just way slower than function reference.
Mahmoo
05/19/2024, 8:27 AMThe thing I am trying to ask is should we replace all lambda calls inside of our project to function reference and don't care much about performance as with k2 compiler its quite evident that it'll be much faster.
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Arjan van Wieringen
05/19/2024, 10:10 AMDoes this performance difference matter in your project?
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Mahmoo
05/19/2024, 10:12 AMPractically speaking, No.
Because the above test run a loop for 1 billion times.
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AdamW
05/19/2024, 11:14 AMHow are you testing this? Are you sure you’re it’s not JIT at work?
The article is not a valid microbenchmark for something like this anyway.
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