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Totally different use of the term "virtual machine". You're talking about a virtualised execution environment, or hardware virtual machine (as executed by virtu
by regularfry 16y ago
Totally different use of the term "virtual machine". You're talking about a virtualised execution environment, or hardware virtual machine (as executed by virtualbox, xen or whatever); he's talking about a runtime virtual machine (like the CLR, JVM, or Dalvik).
- mahmud 16y agoThe distinction is negligible on the mobile phone where the the 'runtime VM' takes care of memory allocation for even "native" C code.