The next version of Google Android will likely include a major change that average users won’t notice at all… unless they notice that apps generally run more quickly. Google has been working on replacing the Dalvik virtual machine that powers Android apps with something called ART since last year. Now it looks like ART is […]
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Goodbye Dalvik? Android code commit makes ART runtime the default
For as long as Android has been around the operating system has relied on the Dalvik virtual machine as the platform apps run on. Now it looks like Google is getting to replace Dalvik with a new runtime called ART. While Dalvik uses “just-in-time” processing to compile code on the fly, ART using an “ahead-of-time” process […]