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		SigmundA on July 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why is Android moving to AOT Java compilat... Recompiling is an issue on large code bases, that's the problem, power is secondary, slow app startup is primary in my experience. If you cache jit code it loses it live data benefit for the most part, might as well AOT on your build server instead.

rockdoe on July 4, 2014 [–]

If you cache jit code it loses it live data benefit for the most part

As pointed out elsewhere: that's just not true.

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