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Mastering High Performance with Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering High Performance with Kotlin Overcome performance difficulties in Kotlin with a range of exciting techniques and solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996648
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Igor Kucherenko Igor Kucherenko
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Collections

Always prefer read-only view collections over mutable ones. Since read-only view collections can't be changed, you can prevent a lot of bugs that relate to multithreading and state inconsistency. If you need to iterate elements of an ArrayList, consider the while loop:

inline fun <reified T> List<T>.foreach(crossinline invoke: (T) -> Unit): Unit {
val size = size
var i = 0
while (i < size) {
invoke(get(i))
i ++
}
}

Sequences can improve performance significantly, especially if you use methods such as first:

@Benchmark
fun sequence() = (0..1_000_000)
.asSequence()
.filter { it % 2 == 0 }
.map { it * it }
.first()
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