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Episode 199: Compose performance

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The Immutable Modifiers in Android X

R8 has a bunch of special cases for optimization. It just seems to me that it modifiers are so common and modified changes are so common that having a special case in the compiler plugin for this, even though conceptually, that's just a library. Ooh, we know what this is. This is a special objects.equal method. That may require a pair level, whatever, 24, but we're going to sort of translate this other thing. The compose runtime thinks about that it's creating a tree, but it doesn't know what that tree does or what it is.

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