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Agreed (on the platform front[1]), however since Android uses its own Dalvik bytecode and VM - which has already been optimised for quick execution in a low-resource environment, and is incompatible with Java bytecode - Jazelle would make no difference to Android performance.
I seem to remember that Jazelle on the later ARM chips (i.e. not the ones in our N8x0 machines) can execute arbitrary machine code for each/any bytecode instruction, so it might still be usable (though we still don't quite know how it works and it's protected by patents and the like so I, for one, am not too bothered to dig into it any more)
 

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