Kotlin's Lambda Optimization

The way Kotlin actually transforms Lambda's is actively bad here. Even if you don't call any standard lib libraries or anything, you can just return the int. And it will actually create bytecode that is an unbox and a box. So your condition to basically accept these things are like, oh, yeah, objects are fine because that's probably an int. But in some cases, it isn't.

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