iirc the Hermes has AOT'd bytecode but not real native execution, from what I read they couldn't get the performance up enough to offset the size cost vs their

iirc the Hermes has AOT'd bytecode but not real native execution, from what I read they couldn't get the performance up enough to offset the size cost vs their bytecode and for many regular React-native apps absolute performance isn't as important as not being waaay too bloated.