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Episode 191: Compose Lazy Layouts

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Recycle View in Compose?

Recycler view, the thing that defines it in my mind is, well, it's in the name, right? The fact that you are not necessarily recreating objects, you're able to reuse them. And we don't overallocate for the entire list. We allocate lazily, but we also reuse. So I guess like here is more or less not really in the name as it was before. Right now it's more focused on how the elements are created. That's why it's called lazy, but they do is the same. Yes, we create elements one by one. We reuse in the background, but small performance optimization is not guaranteed to be reused.

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