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I'm not so sure. A "JVM" is not a Java language interpreter anyway but a Java byte code interpreter. AFAIK all those other languages only run on Dalvik by fir

by zmmmmm 16y ago

I'm not so sure. A "JVM" is not a Java language interpreter anyway but a Java byte code interpreter. AFAIK all those other languages only run on Dalvik by first being compiled to Java byte code format, thus it is arguable that they are all "Java" as far as the VM goes. What Google needs is something that compiles directly to Dalvik's own native format which has no "Java" at all in the pipeline.

technomancy 16y ago
> AFAIK all those other languages only run on Dalvik by first being compiled to Java byte code format You seem to think the JVM bytecode format is specific to the Java Programming Language™; why is this? Admittedly Sun has muddled things up here by using the word "Java" to mean many separate things.