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The fact that ART makes use of dex bytecode as portable executable format[0] complicates the matter for those not versed in compiler design.
So people see bytecode and think managed, when a bytecode format doesn't have anything to do with being interpreted or compiled to native code.
[0] An old idea that goes back to the mainframe days and used by quite a few other languages.
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The fact that ART makes use of dex bytecode as portable executable format[0] complicates the matter for those not versed in compiler design.
So people see bytecode and think managed, when a bytecode format doesn't have anything to do with being interpreted or compiled to native code.
[0] An old idea that goes back to the mainframe days and used by quite a few other languages.