Using C++ in Android can offer potential performance gains due to lower-level system access and existing libraries.
Communication between Kotlin and C++ through the JNI comes with a cost, with rough estimates ranging from ~0 to ~104ns on modern devices, and additional costs for operations like sending integer arrays.
For heavier workloads on large amounts of data, utilizing C++ for tasks like sorting an array or modifying elements can lead to significant performance improvements compared to Kotlin.
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