Marc Reichelt

Senior Android Engineer @ Snapp Mobile

Android dev since 2009. Loves Kotlin so much that he became a Kotlin trainer. On a mission to make code sharing on mobile easier using Kotlin Multiplatform + Native. ♥️ As an organizer of the GDG Rhein-Main in Frankfurt/Germany, he likes helping people in achieving their goals and learning about new technologies.

Kotlin on CRaC – new JVM features to speed things up

What if we could drastically improve the JVM startup time? What if we could start a Kotlin-powered backend in milliseconds? Let's explore some exciting new JVM features like the experimental CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) and JEP 483 (Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking) from Project Leyden, a feature of JDK 24! How fast are they, and how are they different from GraalVM and Kotlin Native? Finally, let's go completely wild, and experiment with a crazy idea: Let's see if we can apply these technologies to make our Gradle unit test workflows in Android projects faster as well!