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Episode 193: Kotlin

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No More Stopping the World Garbage Collector

When you compile a two native app, the runtime is just part of the application. But there is no garbage collector running that actually tracks these allocations and does the right thing and stops the world occasionally. So we had to port the garbage, write our own Kotlin native garbage collector. And so yeah, there's obviously a lot of performance tuning that needs to happen there.

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