ZenFone 2 Review: Cheap, Fast, Big, Flawed
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o Display
o Audio
o Camera
Android’s ART replaced Dalvik for many reasons, some of them being that AOT trumped JIT compilation and that Dalvik’s garbage collector was inefficient. Ultimately, it aims to improve app performance and the results have been widely discussed ever since ART’s original optional implementation on KitKat. With better performance and less of a need for native and platform-dependent code, the x86 architecture can benefit as apps become more efficient and do not have as many ARM hooks that need to be translated by libhoudini or whatever method of binary translator that gets put in place. Moreover, developers can port their ARM-based NDK applications to x86 and avoid binary translation altogether for more efficient results (some documentation by Intel can be found here). We hope that ASUS does bring further ART optimizations from more recent and upcoming Android builds to strengthen the process.
