Ebook: Mastering High Performance with Kotlin: Overcome performance difficulties in Kotlin with a range of exciting techniques and solutions

Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Identifying Performance Bottlenecks; Reasons for performance issues; Memory management; Garbage collection; Working principles of the garbage collector; Impacts of garbage collection; Heap fragmentation; Finalization; Resource leaks; Memory leaks; String pool; Memory model; The problem of concurrency and parallelism; Java Memory Model (JMM); Synchronization; Slow rendering; Device refresh rate; Frame rate; Summary; Chapter 2: Identifying Indicators of Performance Issues; Benchmarking.;A balance between implementing complex applications and optimizing performance is a present-day need. This book helps you achieve this balance while developing and deploying applications with Kotlin. You will learn how to use profiling tools to detect performance issues and discover bytecode that is generated to overcome performance bottlenecks.