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Myriad brings 3x Faster Applications With New VM To Android
- wmf 17y agoIt's interesting that Google has a JS JIT but not a Dalvik JIT; I'd think it would be simpler. Edit: I see they're working on it (although still in secret): http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Android-s-Dalvik-to-be-JIT-boosted-861870.html http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Android-s-Dalvik-to-b...
- ardit33 17y agoThey are working on it. Android 2.5 is supposed to have it.
- FooBarWidget 17y agoMaybe because of memory constraints. JIT output can take quite a bit of memory. Furthermore JITting stuff to aggressively can significantly increase startup time of apps; for desktop/GUI apps it's usually better to apply Just-Too-Late compilation: don't JIT things early but JIT things later after the app is already running.
- vilya 17y agoFor a relatively constrained device like an Android handset, I'd have thought it would be better to compile the bytecodes into an optimised native executable at installation time?
- wmf 17y agoIf the native executable is larger than bytecode, no. Now that you mention it, it would be interesting to compare dex vs. Thumb2 code size.
- tumult 17y agoClaim Posted on Internet, No Proof Supplied. (download links? specs? papers? anything? bueller?)
- wmf 17y agoThe customers for this are phone vendors, who will be getting one-on-one sales pitches. They don't really need to convince you.
- tumult 17y agoThen why post it here? "It could exist in a future phone at some point, it doesn't involve you. But here's a link, for you to read." If I shouldn't care, then why should I care?
- dagw 17y agoWell I know it doesn't necessarily mean anything but Benoit Schillings (of BeOS and Qt fame) is their CTO, and by all accounts he knows a bit about coding. Which, while not proof of anything in it self, at least shows they at least in theory have the chops to pull something like that off and probably aren't completely making shit up.
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