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  There is nothing more frustrating in Android development than building a beautiful, declarative UI only to watch it stutter during a simple scroll. You’ve optimized your business logic, moved heavy operations to background threads, and yet the Android Profiler shows skipped frames. For years, the "magic" of Jetpack Compose came with a hidden tax:  Stability . If the Compose compiler could not prove a data type was immutable, it pessimistically assumed the data changed on every frame, triggering unnecessary recomposition. With the arrival of Kotlin 2.0 and the Compose Compiler Gradle plugin, we have a new paradigm:  Strong Skipping Mode . Combined with proper usage of  derivedStateOf , we can virtually eliminate UI jank without boilerplate wrapper classes. The Root Cause: Why "Jank" Happens To fix performance, you must understand the Compose phases. Frame drops usually occur during the  Composition  phase, before Layout or Draw. When a parent composable re...