Depends on what you mean by 'Hotspot'. Both of Sun's embedded JVMs (CDC, CLDC) had 'Hotspot' implementations. Both of these implementations performed many of th

Depends on what you mean by 'Hotspot'. Both of Sun's embedded JVMs (CDC, CLDC) had 'Hotspot' implementations. Both of these implementations performed many of these types of optimizations (which I can say with certainty because I wrote many of them). I'm no Dalvik expert, but there really isn't any reason why it shouldn't be able to do similar optimizations. Remember that the CDC and CLDC Hotspot implementations were originally developed for hardware of the early 2000s.