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But how many people actually use non-Oracle Java VMs as the default Java VM in a web browser? Or even as a non-default Java VM?
by SimHacker 13y ago
But how many people actually use non-Oracle Java VMs as the default Java VM in a web browser? Or even as a non-default Java VM?
- stormbrew 13y agoTo the former, everyone who uses an Android device (Dalvik).
- lvh 13y agoDalvik isn't a JVM. It's a virtual machine for which someone has written a compiler from JVM bytecode to its native bytecode.
- stormbrew 13y agoI think this is more of a legal convenience than anything else. It probably would be an extended JVM if Google weren't concerned about Sun/Oracle's litigious nature when it comes to extending the JVM. Really it's a VM that runs JVM code, even though it needs an extra translation step. It's not like there's anything else that targets it afaik.
- tlarkworthy 13y agoOpenJDK ships with Ubuntu, its a pain to install the Oracle one