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ilya.gorbunov

07/25/2017, 6:29 PM
until
will get an intrinsic in 1.1.4 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-9900
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elect

07/25/2017, 8:41 PM
would it be possible also for 
repeat
?
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ilya.gorbunov

07/25/2017, 8:51 PM
What is the issue with 
repeat
?
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voddan

07/25/2017, 8:52 PM
the only problem with intrinsics for library functions is that it becomes an expert knowledge what gets optimized and what not.
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damian

07/26/2017, 12:42 AM
repeat
will already be fully optimized. it's always inlined and it takes advantage of the 
..
intrinsic
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elect

07/26/2017, 6:59 AM
nice to hear
I am really interested in knowing what's optimized and what's not
I'd like to read a deep and full report on Kotlin
for example, I read once an article showing that 
forEach
was much slower than a simple 
for
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voddan

07/26/2017, 7:39 AM
forEach
was much slower than a simple 
for
That's because 
forEach
is a generic function and has to use a generic iterator
I am really interested in knowing what's optimized and what's not
Maybe we need to keep a list of all intrinsics and compiler-level optimizations on kotlinlang.org
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elect

07/26/2017, 7:48 AM
that'd be awesome!
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voddan

07/26/2017, 8:50 AM
@elect make the first PR to the site, others will follow 😉
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