How R8 made Kotlin Coroutines on Android 2x faster

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Android Developers Blog at 27 Jul, 13:00 UTC

Posted by Andrei Shikov, Senior Software Engineer, Android Toolkit and Jonathan Starup, Software Engineer, R8 Team Starting from AGP 9.2.0, R8 optimizes most Atomic*FieldUpdater calls into Unsafe variants that perform 2x to 4x better on common operations. This has a particularly large impact on the…