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Anyone know what docs to read to get started with understanding how kotlin compilation works? I heard that it was a bit complicated and wanted to get a feel for what was going on to see if there's anything I can do about speeding it up over the next few months.

• I found Article by <@UJNU95VNC> very usefull <https://medium.com/bumble-tech/fixing-serialization-of-kotlin-objects-once-and-for-all-95886fddba7a> 
•  talk by <@U0CD02F9P> <https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/kotlinconf2018/slides/5_Writing%20Your%20First%20Kotlin%20Compiler%20Plugin.pdf> and video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GMlaziIyo>
• new shiny KSP by google used with jetpack compose  with sample and some docs <https://github.com/android/kotlin/tree/ksp/libraries/tools/kotlin-symbol-processing-api>

Self advertising myself, I also had a talk about the Kotlin compiler recently :slightly_smiling_face:

It is more focused on plugins, but one chapter is completely about compilation processes.
<https://www.droidcon.com/media-detail?video=453613951>

Also note that there are ongoing efforts by JB  and Google teams to speed it up, they are rewriting huge parts of compiler and promising quite nice perf boost :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks for the info. I'll give it all a look-over.

Since this has been pinned to the channel as newbie help, I would like to point also to the great article series by <@U540CBYG1> <https://blog.bnorm.dev/writing-your-second-compiler-plugin-part-1>

<@UJNU95VNC> the link is unfortunately dead

Not sure I have the sources, will check :slightly_smiling_face:
Probably better to publish transcript later

<https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C7L3JB43G/p1641207056251800>