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Anyone else have experience in this area? Is Java on Android _really_ slow? Or is it the porting of objective C to Java? I'd really like to know. I have an
by pragmatic 17y ago
Anyone else have experience in this area?
Is Java on Android _really_ slow? Or is it the porting of objective C to Java?
I'd really like to know. I have an interest in developing for the Android.
- Daemmerung 17y agoThere is no JIT-compiler on Dalvik, and its garbage collector is a very slow mark-sweep. Both are known deficiencies being addressed by the Android team. I've been working with SISC Scheme on Android, where it is truly slow. At the moment it is little more than a toy, a Schemely palmtop calculator.
- shareme 17y agoI should say no it is not slow..3/5ths speed of current j2me. Android 2.2 has a JIT and will be on most devices except maybe old G1s
- Estragon 17y agoI don't think you can infer much from this article. It was a half-assed attempt to cut and paste a program from one platform and language to another. He uses a horror movie motif throughout the essay, but the right horror story for his development style is "Frankenstein."