It's been a few years since I was following Kotlin...
# kotlin-natives
spierce7
11/02/2025, 9:32 PMIt's been a few years since I was following Kotlin native super closely. I'm curious if the native performance has gotten much better.
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Sergey Chelombitko
11/02/2025, 10:18 PMNot much. GC is still years behind JVM, but the lack of stack-based allocation for C interop is my biggest gripe.
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loke
11/09/2025, 2:31 PMWhen I started my project, kotlin native was about 20 times slower than JVM. Now I'm looking at less than 10. Sometimes only around 4 times slower.
loke
11/09/2025, 2:32 PMOf course, it depends highly on what you do. Do a lot of object allocations and performance will tank due to the memory management being not very good, as @Sergey Chelombitko mentioned.
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spierce7
11/13/2025, 8:42 PMAre there any plans to try and improve the memory management?
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loke
11/16/2025, 8:20 AMI have no idea. I'd hope so. There are times when I wonder if maintaining the native version of my system is worth it. There are really no major benefits of it, other than startup time.
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spierce7
11/16/2025, 3:04 PMSharing code with iOS and other native platforms seems pretty nice
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