Does the "hidden classes" feature of JVM 15 have p...
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Ruckus
09/16/2020, 3:02 PMDoes the "hidden classes" feature of JVM 15 have potential improve Kotlin on the JVM?
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ephemient
09/16/2020, 3:05 PMwhy would it? Kotlin doesn't do dynamic class generation at runtime
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Ruckus
09/16/2020, 3:05 PMI remember reading something about how they can improve lambdas in Java (I don't remember the details), and I was wondering if the same held true for Kotlin.
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ephemient
09/16/2020, 3:07 PMKotlin lambdas don't use InvokeDynamic - they're compiled to classes (except inline)
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irus
09/16/2020, 3:14 PMirus
09/16/2020, 3:14 PMI believe there are no performance benefits
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ephemient
09/16/2020, 3:15 PMwell, the ability to inject nestmates seems like it could reduce the need for bridge methods
ephemient
09/16/2020, 3:16 PMbut kotlin doesn't use nestmates yet either, so 🤷
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Ruckus
09/16/2020, 3:17 PMCool, thanks for humoring my wondering.
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