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Dart has a VM (with hot reloading) for dev time and an AOT compiler for release builds. I’d say that’s one of the most attractive things about Dart to compensa

by tybit 8y ago

Dart has a VM (with hot reloading) for dev time and an AOT compiler for release builds. I’d say that’s one of the most attractive things about Dart to compensate for yet another language.

pritambaral 8y ago
How large and invasive is the Dart runtime though? Running in a VM and running with a runtime are only so far apart. And I'm interested in distribution package sizes too.
- afsina 8y ago
  Here is some info: https://flutter.io/faq/#how-big-is-the-flutter-engine https://flutter.io/faq/#how-big-is-the-flutter-engine
  - gcb0 8y ago
    in summary : a minimal UI app goes from 40k of java code to 6700k of compressed dart code
    - afsina 8y ago
      Not compressed, compiled to machine code.
      - gcb0 8y ago
        why does the linked article calls ot out as "compressed" but not mention it for java bytecode?