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Episode 144: Compilers

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Kotlin Plugin

In the editor, it's really all the time is spent in the front end. There is no back end. So whenever you're editing a large Kotlin file and it's taking a while, you're waiting for the frontend. What'd you say four to five times? What was there a single thing? Did you remove a sleep call? Like what's the main effort in speeding this up so substantially? Yeah,. This was driven by JetBrains engineers, and we just recently joined the effort. But the main thing is that it's a completely rewrite of the front End. The old front end used to basically have two structures. One is called PSI, which is basically

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