News by: Jared Peters 31st October 2013
As we all know Android has always used the
Dalvik virtual machine as it’s runtime compiler, and for the most part,
it works well. However, in what’s probably a piece of Android’s new
Project Svelte, they’ve introduced a new compiler called ART which adds Performance boost in Kitkat.. This is
likely related to Google’s big purchase of Flexycore not long ago, as these compilers relate directly to Android performance.
ART is showing up in some Android developer
menus, but it isn’t completely implemented just yet. ART reads .oat
files as opposed to the traditional .odex files that have been common in
Android system applications up to this point. Android also includes an
odex2oat converter, so whenever this does get implemented, it seems like
Android should be able to handle the change as well as backwards
compatibility with older data and apps.
This is some pretty technical low-level
hardware stuff that most users never even notice, but if you’re
interested, you can find out more at XDA.
news source: talkandroid.com
