From a similar high elevation perch: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/274640/why-is-android-runtimes-aot-compilation-more-performant-than

From a similar high elevation perch: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/274640/why-is-android-runtimes-aot-compilation-more-performant-than-dalviks-jit https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2746... Tl;dr AoT can be more resource intensive as a one time cost while JIT uses and limits runtime resources