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title: "Kotlin at 60fps - Write Hot Code Without Losing Your Cool at Minnebar (2020)"
source: "/speaks/kotlin-at-60fps-write-minnebar-october-2020/"
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# Kotlin at 60fps - Write Hot Code Without Losing Your Cool

Collin Flynn

October 6, 2020

## About the talk

Kotlin has indisputable benefits. It's terse, expressive, and addresses some of Java's oldest issues at the compiler level. For much of the code we write, the runtime performance difference is negligible.

Occasionally, however, a hot code path will reveal the truth about primitive boxing, immutables, capturing lambdas, or delegates. Do we have to abandon Kotlin to write faster code?

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## Presented by

Collin Flynn

Principal Software Engineer

Collin Flynn

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