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Looking at this slide it seems as even the VM runs on top of this "translator" thing. Even so, it often ranks in the top on performance. Image what it would do with native x86 compiled MeeGo software...

But sooner or later that DalvikVM will compile to x86 as well, at which point it will probably smoke the ARMs for fun times. Still, if Goo "not invented here" gle simply used OpenJDK with its JIT-compiler they'd already have that.

[edit] I'm actually mystified why google went for their proprietary java-abomination... Many ARMs have Jazelle, a CPU mode which runs a great part of the standard Java bytecode as be it native code. No JIT compiler needed. Granted, I have no clue on the actual performance of that construction, and sure enough Jazelle would cost a dear sum of €€€ in licenses. But that's the problem with google anyway, they are so loaded that they can actually can pay for their "not invented here"-way of live

Last edited by Fuzzillogic; 2012-04-25 at 20:37. Reason: google/android rant