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Thanks. > On the contrary, lots of this work was already present in commercial products I should have been clearer that I meant other OSS JVMs have catching u

Thanks. > On the contrary, lots of this work was already present in commercial products I should have been clearer that I meant other OSS JVMs have catching up to do. > long before Android True. The evolution of Dalvik/ART remind me of HP Dynamo: https://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-2.html https://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/dynamo/dynamo-2... > What you are getting now is commercial work being offered as free beer ... AOSP is free as in beer.

pjmlp 2y ago
> AOSP is free as in beer. True, however it isn't Java proper, and apparently Google has started to rewrite subsystems in Kotlin as well, when initially they said the OS layers would still be Java (language). Apparently the updates to Java 11 and 17 LTS subsets in ART, were motivated to keep up with Maven Central more than anything else.