In my testing, I noticed that opening as well as switching apps were faster under it. In its current form, the benefits of switching to ART are very limited. It does have its downside though, including a longer installation time and storage footprint for apps. Unlike Dalvik which is a Just In Time (JIT) runtime, ART is an Ahead Of Time runtime which allows it to launch apps significantly faster. Instead, it has hidden it under Settings for developers and tinkerers to play around with and probably get some feedback. Being in nascent stages, Google did not replace Android’s current runtime - Dalvik - with ART. In Android 4.4 KitKat, Google has introduced a new experimental runtime - ART a.k.a Android Run Time.
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