This is a great video about avoiding fallacies in benchmarking, specifically around Kotlin. One thing they used during tests is a "blackhole" object to make sure that compilers don't optimize away code from loops. The implementation goes back to a GPL2 licensed one in the JVM. I wonder if it would make sense to port that to Dart. Dart already has benchmarking harnesses but having a black hole evaluator could be interesting. #DartLang #kotlin #programming
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