I wonder if and how the new compiler front-end wil...

# compiler

[Marc Knaup]

I wonder if and how the new compiler front-end will affect performance of compiling DSLs?
The more DSL I use in my project the more sluggish compiling and the IDE seem to become.

[christophsturm]

how does your dsl look like? Idea has had huge performance problems with kotlin code that contains a lot of lambdas, but it has hugely improved in the last year.

[Marc Knaup]

Plenty of lambdas and quite some builder inference.
It did improve somewhat over time but it's still hindering day to day work.

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

I think the FIR would absolutely help you out here. However, if you do find that there's still performance issues, reporting those on YouTrack would hopefully help a lot. Alternatively, you can also try to then create some advanced FIR plugin to make analysis faster if you want

[Fudge]

Alternatively, you can also try to then create some advanced FIR plugin to make analysis faster if you want

And only benefit a handful of users? Any performance improvement, or anything that benefits all users objectively, needs to be comitted to the actual master kotlin compiler.

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

As in, for your own specific usecase. Sometimes some optimisations might only apply to a specific syntax combinations that maybe would be too expensive for normal Kotlin to include, but in a hyper-specific use case it can be useful to optimise. I'm just saying that, if all goes wrong, you still have the fallback of rolling out your own in-house optimisation