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# Compilation Avoidance

# ABI support

**rules_kotlin** now supports compilation avoidance through the use of ABI jars (also known as
interface or header jars) for classpath dependencies. This can have significant performance wins for
non-ABI affecting changes since down stream recompilation can be avoided in such cases.

This feature can be enabled through the `experimental_use_abi_jars` flag in the tool chain as
follows

```python
load("//kotlin:kotlin.bzl", "define_kt_toolchain")


define_kt_toolchain(
name = "kotlin_toolchain",
experimental_use_abi_jars = True,
)
```

This feature is implemented using the Jetbrains Kotlin JvmABI compiler plugin for generating headers
for Kotlin code. Unfortunately there are some known bugs with this plugin that affect less than 1%
of targets.
* https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40340
* https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40133

If you encounter such bugs, ABI generation can be disabled by setting the following tag

```python
load("//kotlin:kotlin.bzl", "kt_jvm_library")

kt_jvm_library(
name = "framework",
tags = ["kt_abi_plugin_incompatible"],
)
```

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