how is kotlin so much faster than java while using...
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Hullaballoonatic
06/12/2018, 4:08 PMhow is kotlin so much faster than java while using the same bytecode?
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Andreas Sinz
06/12/2018, 4:11 PMWhy do you think that kotlin is much faster?
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Hullaballoonatic
06/12/2018, 7:36 PMI tested them side by side after converting some java code
Hullaballoonatic
06/12/2018, 7:36 PMmaybe i just need to more tests
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Andreas Sinz
06/12/2018, 7:56 PMhow did you test it? with JMH?
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pavel
06/12/2018, 8:36 PMIs your code doing the same things?
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Hullaballoonatic
06/12/2018, 9:41 PMyeah, i literally just used the coverter from java to kotlin, but i'll test it again later. i imagine there should be no reason it does?
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pavel
06/12/2018, 9:45 PMWell, in theory, since a lot of stuff is mutable in Java, but immutable in Kotlin, the compiler can do more optimisations. Otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Hullaballoonatic
06/12/2018, 9:45 PMokay!
Hullaballoonatic
06/12/2018, 9:46 PMyeah kotlin is just a lot safer than java. it's easier to understand, i think. it took a lot of the great conventions of newer languages, but didn't leave itself so weakly typed as languages like javascript
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Gerard Klijs
06/14/2018, 5:47 AMDynamic languages also have some great advantages, like being able to having a ‘real’ repl. I’ve seen some comparisons between java and kotlin, but the differences weren’t that big, and sometimes kotlin was slower.
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k4k4_dev
06/19/2018, 11:19 AM@Hullaballoonatic home code testing hardly ever is reliable source of benchmarks.
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