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ART Bench

ART Bench is a simple demonstration of the performance difference between the new Android Runtime (ART) and the current Dalvik Virtual Machine. To fully illustrate these differences, I've employed the New Relic Android agent to collect performance metrics and send them to back to New Relic.

Getting Started

First, you'll need a New Relic account. If you don't have one, you can always sign up for free. Next, just click on "Mobile Apps" and then "Add a new app". Follow the instructions for Gradle and add your application token to the onCreate method in MyActivity.

Now you'll need a device configured with ART. You'll find the option in your Developer Options menu:

You can use a physical device or an emulator such as Genymotion.

Benchmarking

There are two ways to observe the benchmark results. You can just tail the device logs (run adb logcat or open the pane in Android Studio) or wait a minute for the results to post to New Relic. Of course, with New Relic you'll be able to see individual benchmark traces. Feel free to replace the spectral norm code with your own benchmark. You can find more excellent examples here.

License

BSD

Contriubtions

You are welcome to send pull requests to us - however, by doing so you agree that you are granting New Relic a non-exclusive, non-revokable, no-cost license to use the code, algorithms, patents, and ideas in that code in our products if we so choose. You also agree the code is provided as-is and you provide no warranties as to its fitness or correctness for any purpose.