Hi, is serializationx faster than moshi with codegen -- in compile times?

# serialization

[ursus]

Hi, is serializationx faster than moshi with codegen -- in compile times?

[gildor]

I don’t think that anyone will give you correct answer without actually measuring it on your project

[gildor]

In theory compiler plugin should be faster (no additional code to compile, no stubs generation) and probably has better incremental support (at least in may have in future)

[gildor]

it will be probably faster on practice if it’s the only AP which you use, so if you migrate on compiler plugin and don’t use kapt, so you don’t have stub generation step, it may be faster (see for example claims from KSP about replacing kapt - https://github.com/android/kotlin/tree/ksp/libraries/tools/kotlin-symbol-processing-api#comparison-to-kapt but also keep in mind that KSP generates Kotlin source code, not byte code, so it probably slower than pure compiler plugin)

But if you still have other APs it maybe much closer to moshi compile time (which also supports incremental AP, and It maybe not slower, maybe even faster)

[gildor]

anyway, I wouldn’t believe any claims about performance (including my words above), without actual measuring of different scenarios (clean build, incremental with ABI change, incremental without ABI change) on your project

[Paul Woitaschek]

Nothing beats moshi with reflection in debug builds ^^

[gildor]

It’s true

[ursus]

hmm, dagger and moshi are my only kapt things, and I heard of dagger-reflect -- I might look into that