How serialization actually works? Is it a compiler...
# serializationj
Jan Skrasek
09/14/2020, 1:08 PMHow serialization actually works? Is it a compiler plugin? Is it faster than kapt? Will it be faster than KSP in future?
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jw
09/14/2020, 1:26 PMIt's a compiler plugin that generates visitor-like code for visiting the properties of a class. Comparing it to kapt and KSP doesn't make sense since you could not implement serialization as an annotation processor or symbol processor since it modifies classes.
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Jan Skrasek
09/14/2020, 1:40 PMI mean is there a performance gain when switching from kapt generated adapter for Json processing, like the one in Moshi?
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jw
09/14/2020, 1:41 PMPerformance at compile-time or runtime?
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Jan Skrasek
09/14/2020, 1:42 PMCompile-time
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jw
09/14/2020, 3:10 PMThe compiler plugin is faster, although I'm not sure build speed is a primary concern in general since you only compile once but run many times.
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