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Inline Functions Higher-order functions in Kotlin can incur runtime overhead due to function objects and closure capture, leading to memory allocation and virtual call costs. Inline functions mitigate this by copying the function's bytecode directly into the call site, eliminating these overheads. F...

Higher-order functions accept other functions as parameters or return them. A classic example is a custom aggregation function on a collection, which takes an initial value and a combining operation to process each element sequentially. fun <T, U> Iterable<T>.aggregate( seed: U, operatio...