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Since the compilation to native code takes place at installation time, supposedly ART would take advantage of the CPU specific features.

Also they could in theory do escape analysis to do stack allocation.

And assuming Google does indeed keep up with Java versions, eventually value types will be supported.

The only way they are going to move away from all the framework code they have invested in Java (the language) is if they create a common runtime like WinRT or Objective-C runtime.

However, it is quite telling that the Android team doesn't even bother to add Go or Dart support to the NDK.