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I've heard that compose in release mode enables a lot of optimizations and feels more snappy. I wonder what does "release mode" mean here?

I have a "custom" build type which has "debuggable = true; minifyEnabled = true", so I guess R8 *does* run. But app still feels not very snappy on older devices (especially around `LazyColumn`). Will setting `debuggable = false` improve things? Or maybe something else?

I'm also interested if Romain can chime in here or something. I almost want to be able to test my code in "release" mode, but still be in debug mode. I guess just writing that out, it sounds laughable and conflicting, but yeah. I'm hoping compose 1.0 brings some kind of blog post about how to test this sort of stuff.

debuggable has an impact (which is why the benchmarking libraries warn you when it’s on). There are other things to take into account too (interpreted vs JIT vs AOT).