Google has replaced the JIT compiler with Ahead in the Android version of Lollipop.
Android Runtime (ART) with time and time compilation (AOT) and improved garbage collection (GC) replacing Dalvik, which uses on-time compilation (JIT)
and according to Wikipedia,
On-Time Compilation (AOT) is the act of compiling a high-level programming language such as C, or an intermediate language such as Java bytecode, .NET Common Intermediate Language (CIL), IBM System / 38, or IBM System I Independent Machine Interface ", in native (system) machine code.
- as it is better than JIT, which was used in the previous version of Android.
- How did he improve the Android compilation process?
- if it is better than JIT, then why is it not used by Oracle for Java?
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