Hi! Does anybody know how big String can be in Kot...
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Mikolaj
03/18/2025, 9:22 AMHi! Does anybody know how big String can be in Kotlin? Right now I am passing strings that are ~40KB without problems but I am concerned about how far can I go before I have to implement a buffer of some sort 🤔
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Tóth István Zoltán
03/18/2025, 9:42 AMI would guess it's platform dependent. ChatGPT says 2 GB for JVM, 1 GB for JS and "who knows" for Native. It also says that performance will degrade with big ones which is reasonable. I would guess when you simply pass the strings it doesn't really matter. Processing it is a different matter.
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ephemient
03/18/2025, 1:51 PMconstant strings are limited to roughly 64k ascii or 32k unicode on JVM, due to classfile format restrictions
ephemient
03/18/2025, 1:51 PMruntime strings can be as big as memory allows, which may vary
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