AOT compiling Dart for iOS Android
summary
Dart now produces ahead-of-time native binaries for iOS and Android, landed in the SDK and used by Flutter since October, with 3x faster startup on the Flutter gallery and some benchmarks showing ~2x peak improvements while others lag (DeltaBlue ~20% of JIT). The toolchain adds tree shaking and removes mirrors/spawnUri to keep binaries small, uses a lightweight DBC interpreter for iOS dev, experiments a hybrid snapshot (1.21) combining shared AOT code with JIT reoptimization.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:18Background
- 2:36Components
- 5:22Dart VM
- 6:27Type feedback
- 8:02Performance comparison
- 9:27Sample benchmarks
- 10:48File micro benchmarks
- 12:52Treeshaking
- 14:05Conclusion
- 18:51Benefits
- 20:03Closures
- 20:42Types
- 21:43Global Type Inference
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