I don't think Kotlin is interpreted, doesn't it ne...
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LoganDark
06/22/2020, 12:03 PMI don't think Kotlin is interpreted, doesn't it need to be compiled to a Java program before running? And then that incurs JVM startup costs and all that...
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Animesh Sahu
06/22/2020, 12:09 PMLooks promising (taking time to boot up jvm)... is there any way kotlin scripts be natively compiled (i've downloaded and used native compiler tho but it seems to compile it to a jvm code because I see i can import java packages like java.io.File) uwu?
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LoganDark
06/22/2020, 12:10 PMDoesn't native compilation take even longer? (I've never used the compiler though!)
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Animesh Sahu
06/22/2020, 12:11 PMI really don't know but I think the jvm boot time could be the issue....
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LoganDark
06/22/2020, 12:15 PMTried benchmarking a compiler run to make sure?
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thanksforallthefish
06/22/2020, 1:13 PMgraalvm is aiming (and succeeding) at optimizing startup time, but so far at the cost of compilation time.
if at that you add the extra time needed to compile kotlin wrt java, yeah, scripting in java/kotlin might not be ideal. people at #scripting probably know better though
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LoganDark
06/22/2020, 1:14 PM@thanksforallthefish That still could be useful for frequently-run scripts, though! If you have some way of reusing past compiler runs...